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Reeza
Super User

First. and Last. are used to identify the first and last records in a group, where the grouping variables are defined in the BY statement and that's how SAS knows when to reset the count variables.

 

 

Dogo23
Quartz | Level 8

Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. 

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