I have 5 years' worth of datasets where I need to get the number of records (rows) for each dataset and put it in an Excel sheet . Is there a quick way or a script that can pull this information?
Right now, I have to do a right click on each dataset, view properties, copy and paste the information into Excel. I could write a sas script and type in all the datasets' name but that would take equally long.
Any advice?
Thanks!
Take a look at SASHELP.VTABLE or PROC DATASETS if all the files are in a specific library.
Assuming your datasets start with YEAR. Note the where condition comparisons are case sensitive.
proc sql;
create table row_counts as
select libname, name, nobs
from sashelp.vtable
where libname='WORK' and upcase(memname) like 'YEAR%';
quit;
Take a look at SASHELP.VTABLE or PROC DATASETS if all the files are in a specific library.
Assuming your datasets start with YEAR. Note the where condition comparisons are case sensitive.
proc sql;
create table row_counts as
select libname, name, nobs
from sashelp.vtable
where libname='WORK' and upcase(memname) like 'YEAR%';
quit;
Genius! I made some minor modifications but it worked really well!
Thanks very much!!!
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