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Calcite | Level 5 JMD
Calcite | Level 5

Good morning,

I wonder how I can to save the number of row in my record and then use that number in later section of my code.

Thank you for your help.

JHN

*I store the row count of file Namelist here;

sql noprint;select count(*) into :ROW_CT from namelist; quit;

*How can I call it here?;

Data test;

do I=1 to ROW_CT

*OR;

Data test;

if _n_< ROW_CT/2;

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Amir
PROC Star

Hi,

You can access the value of a macro variable by prefixing it with an &, e.g.:

Data test;

do I=1 to &ROW_CT

*OR;

Data test;

if _n_< &ROW_CT/2;

Regards,

Amir.

Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

Also note that you might be able to skip the SQL to count the observations and instead use the NOBS= option on the set statement.

data want ;

  set have nobs=nobs ;

  if _n_ < nobs/2 ;

run;

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