topic Re: If.Variable and Infile Statement in SAS Programming

If.Variable and Infile Statement

aweaver — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 15:20:09 GMT

Is it possible to use a first.variable statement and an infile? I am tryin to sum up the album cost for each genre without using two data steps, currently the log says genre is unintialized. Please help.

Re: If.Variable and Infile Statement

PeterClemmensen — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 15:31:01 GMT

To use a first.Variable statement you have to have a by statement in your code?

Re: If.Variable and Infile Statement

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 18:26:58 GMT

First. and last. are only available with a by statement. Variables in the by statement must be in the input dataset.

So the answer to your question is no.

Read the raw data into a dataset, then you can use by processing.

Re: If.Variable and Infile Statement

ballardw — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:23:56 GMT

Depending on what you actually want for your final output one of the report procedures such as Proc Report or Tabulate might be more in line. These both support creating group totals based and often do not require a separate sort step.