Does SAS 9.4 M3 support KFIND function?
Thanks. We are using SAS 9.4 M3 and the dbcs sasexec to execute our program. But we see that it does not recognize KFIND and gives the below error:
ERROR 68-185: The function KFIND is unknown, or cannot be accessed
Afraid I don't know then, it should be part of 9.4. Perhaps contact your SAS support guys.
kindex() ?
ok, so with 9.4 M5 (Sasexe dbcs) I am able to use KFIND. But it now gives me transcoding errors. How do I workaround this?
That is due to your sas session encoding is different from the sas dataset encoding.
Change your sas encoding into the same as sas dataset .
What is KFIND supposed to do?
The function LARGEST returns the "k" largest nonmissing value of a list of values:
a = largest(3, 1, 4, 5, 27, 8, 6); the first value is the 'k' and would return a=6. the values may be constants or variables
SMALLEST works similarly for the smallest values,
ORDINAL returns the th kth smalles to missing or nonmissing
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