Export first 5 obs

[Ronein]

Hello

I want to export first 5 observations.

What is the way to do directly in proc export please?

Then I want also to export observations 6-10

What is the way to do directly in proc export please?

 PROC EXPORT data =sashelp.cars(Where=(_N_<=5)) outfile ="path/dd.csv";run;

[PaigeMiller]

proc export data=sashelp.cars(obs=5) outfile ="path/dd.csv";
run;

_N_ only has meaning within a data step, it has no meaning elsewhere.

[Astounding]

To export observations 6 through 10:

proc export data=sashelp.cars (firstobs=6 obs=10) outfile ="folder/next5.csv";
run;

[Tom · Accepted solution]

Use the OBS= and FIRSTOBS= dataset option.

sashelp.cars(obs=5)

sashelp.cars(firstobs=6 obs=10)

sashelp.cars(firstobs=11 obs=15)

...

[webart999ARM]

To export the first 5 observations using PROC EXPORT, you can use the following code:

PROC EXPORT data = sashelp.cars(where=(_N_<=5)) outfile="path/dd.csv";
run;

To export observations 6-10 using PROC EXPORT, you can use the following code:

PROC EXPORT data = sashelp.cars(where=(_N_>5) and (_N_<=10)) outfile="path/dd.csv";
run;

In both cases, you need to specify the name of the SAS dataset you want to export (in this case, sashelp.cars), the file path and name for the output CSV file (in this case, path/dd.csv), and the WHERE clause that specifies which observations you want to export.

[Ronein]

Sorry but your code give an error.
As it was said here we cannot use _N_ in proc export