topic Re: Implicit and Explicit in SAS Studio

SAS class R

RuthE — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:35:48 GMT

Re: Implicit and Explicit

ballardw — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 22:12:22 GMT

@RuthE wrote:

what is the difference between implicit output and Explicit output. I am a bit confused about what the difference is in the PDV between the two.

Can you give an example of where you run into this?

Or are you looking for something like this:

If you do not have an OUTPUT statement in a Data step program block, then data is written to the output data set after the last statement of the data step executes.

If you have one or more Output statements the data is written to the output at that time but an implied output at the end of the data step is overridden and does not happen.

Re: Implicit and Explicit

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 23:07:16 GMT

Makes no difference in the PDV. The PDV is the in-memory structure that holds all variables during the execution of the data step.

The difference between explicit and implicit is not in what is output, but when it is done.