topic Drop null varaibles in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Drop-null-varaibles/m-p/141659#M37802 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have dataset called AA........I would like to know if there is any way for us to drop all the null variables(both character and numeric) with out looking into the data.....</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:37:32 GMT rakeshvvv 2014-10-24T21:37:32Z Drop null varaibles https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Drop-null-varaibles/m-p/141659#M37802 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have dataset called AA........I would like to know if there is any way for us to drop all the null variables(both character and numeric) with out looking into the data.....</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:37:32 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Drop-null-varaibles/m-p/141659#M37802 rakeshvvv 2014-10-24T21:37:32Z Re: Drop null varaibles https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Drop-null-varaibles/m-p/141660#M37803 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Like "Carnac the Magnificent" he will divine the question without knowing the answer.</P><P></P><P>As far as I know to you will need to "look" a every variable until you determine it is NOT NULL.&nbsp; For many variables perhaps most you only need to look at one observation, but unfortunately for variables that are completely null, the target of the investigation, every observation will need to be examined.</P><P></P><P><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnac_the_Magnificent" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnac_the_Magnificent">Carnac the Magnificent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:51:59 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Drop-null-varaibles/m-p/141660#M37803 data_null__ 2014-10-24T21:51:59Z