topic Re: Debugging - How to print the value of variables in SAS Programming

Debugging - How to print the value of variables

ArchanaSudhir — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:04:59 GMT

Hi!

The following code prints one observation with 4 variables and I am trying to to find out why. So I tried printing the value of name, rate and capital for each iteration.

Please let me know how to find out values of such variables in data step.

data banks;

input name$ rate;

datalines;

FirstCapital 0.0718

DirectBank 0.0721

VirtualDirect 0.0728

;

run;

data newbank;

do year = 1 to 3;

set banks;

%put name rate capital;

capital + 5000;

end;

proc print;

run;

Thanks!

Re: Debugging - How to print the value of variables

Peter_C — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:12:09 GMT

Instead of that %PUT statement use

PUT _ALL_ ;

Re: Debugging - How to print the value of variables

KachiM — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:35:36 GMT

Is this what you are looking for?

data newbank;

do year = 1 to 3;

set banks;

put name = rate = capital =;

capital + 5000;

end;

run;

The use of

PUT _ALL_;

will display all variables in the Program Data Vector(PDV) which is held in memory while the data step is executed.

Re: Debugging - How to print the value of variables

ArchanaSudhir — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:51:17 GMT

Thanks, I was looking for name = option.

Re: Debugging - How to print the value of variables

Reeza — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 18:54:38 GMT

Please mark the question answered