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Barite | Level 11

Hello all,

Is there a way to see the variable names of a dataset in SAS and also the count of values repeated in a variable in a sas dataset?

Regards,

Blue Blue

Blue Blue
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Dani_Gor
SAS Employee

Hi,

 

in order to see a list of variable names of a dataset I would suggest to use the PROC CONTENTS. This procedure provides a lot of information related to a table and shows also the list of variables (and variable properties) 

 

https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/proc/n1hqa4dk5tay0an15nrys1iwr5o2.htm

 

in order to obtain the count of values for a column I would suggest to use the PROC FREQ.This procedure creates a report with frequency counts and can be used for both numeric and character variables,

 

https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/procstat/procstat_freq_syntax01.htm,

 

Best regards

 

 

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