topic Re: PDV in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/PDV/m-p/114612#M31707 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Answer is yes. You can check it more at SAS documentation ---- dictionary.</P><P></P><P></P><P>Ksharp</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:47:46 GMT Ksharp 2013-04-20T06:47:46Z PDV https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/PDV/m-p/114611#M31706 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>hi guys,</P><P>i read some articles about how sas match merges and came to&nbsp; a little confusion now.So i know that when SAS reads from sets then it retains the values of all variables of that set in the PDV from the current observation.But what actually happens if&nbsp; that set is grouped by one variable.SAS only retains the values in the PDV within a "group" and&nbsp; sets the values to missing just before the first observation of each "by group" only?</P><P>Do i make sense?</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 20 Apr 2013 02:51:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/PDV/m-p/114611#M31706 Tal 2013-04-20T02:51:42Z Re: PDV https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/PDV/m-p/114612#M31707 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Answer is yes. You can check it more at SAS documentation ---- dictionary.</P><P></P><P></P><P>Ksharp</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:47:46 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/PDV/m-p/114612#M31707 Ksharp 2013-04-20T06:47:46Z Re: PDV https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/PDV/m-p/114613#M31708 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>thanks Ksharp</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:11:41 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/PDV/m-p/114613#M31708 Tal 2013-04-22T02:11:41Z