topic CALL MISSING in SAS Programming

CALL MISSING

molla — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 08:07:51 GMT

Hi,

Iam beginner to sas programming,cud any one pls explain about missing call function of sas with an example,

LinusH — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 08:06:21 GMT

Interesting that as a SAS beginner you chose to focus on CALL MISSING...

Either way, such information can you get yourself off the shelf by a simple search, like this:

Astounding — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:28:04 GMT

Without CALL MISSING, you would use slightly different tools to set a variable to a missing value. For numerics:

sales=.;

For character variables:

name=' ';

With CALL MISSING, you don't need to know where a variable is character or numeric. You can simply specify:

call missing(sales);

Also, CALL MISSING lets you mention many variables at a time, setting them all to missing, in a single statement.