Trying to only print certain files from imported data error messages

MadQuidd — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:40:01 GMT

I am trying to print observations 131-179 in the data set but keep getting an error message.

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

56 proc print data=problem4a (firstobs=131 obs=48);

ERROR: FIRSTOBS option > OBS option - no data to read from file WORK.PROBLEM4A.

57 run;

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

NOTE: PROCEDURE PRINT used (Total process time):

real time 0.01 seconds

cpu time 0.01 seconds

59 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

the above error is what appears after putting the following code into sas.

FILENAME CSV "/folders/myfolders/homeworkdata/diamond.csv" TERMSTR=CRLF;

/** Import the CSV file. **/

PROC IMPORT DATAFILE=CSV
OUT=problem4a
DBMS=CSV
REPLACE;
guessingrows = 1000;
RUN;

/** Print the results. **/

PROC PRINT DATA=problem4a; RUN;

/** Unassign the file reference. **/

FILENAME CSV;

proc print data=problem4a (firstobs=131 obs=48);
run;

any help is greatly appreciated.

Re: Trying to only print certain files from imported data error messages

mohamed_zaki — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:53:27 GMT

@MadQuidd wrote:

56 proc print data=problem4a (firstobs=131 obs=48);

ERROR: FIRSTOBS option > OBS option - no data to read from file WORK.PROBLEM4A.

The OBS value specifies the last observation that SAS processes in a data set.

So in order to do what you want let it be like

proc print data=problem4a (firstobs=131 obs=179);

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