topic Re: This is the right way of starting program in SAS Programming

This is the right way of starting program

arun1234 — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 19:58:08 GMT

libname wombat "/folders/myfolders/macro";

data wombat.orderdata;
infile "/folders/myfolders/macro/customer.sas7bdat";
input customer_ID;
set wombat.customer;
run;

what is the relevent of set varible here....or how can I use set with out infile oprion

Re: This is the right way of starting program

ballardw — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:02:25 GMT

If the LIBNAME statement successfully assigns the library then

data wombat.orderdata;
   set wombat.customer;
run;

would create a copy of the customer data.

If you only want the customer id then add

keep customer_id;

Once the data is in a SAS data set (sas7bdat extension) then a library pointing to the location of the file and referencing the set as library.dataset is all that is needed. No Infile, no input needed

Re: This is the right way of starting program

Reeza — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:07:36 GMT

SET - tells SAS this is the input data set you'll be working with. You reference a dataset as LIBNAME.DATASET_NAME.

INFILE - tells SAS to read this file, used for text files, not SAS datasets (sas7bdat). SET and INFILE can be used together, but usually not at the beginning or while learning.

INPUT - tells SAS what to read from the file, in this case it's saying read a single variable Customer_ID.

Since you have a SAS dataset this isn't correct. Once you've assinged the library you can point to the dataset directly as someone else has pointed out.

Re: This is the right way of starting program

arun1234 — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:17:23 GMT

Thank you