BookmarkSubscribeRSS Feed
🔒 This topic is solved and locked. Need further help from the community? Please sign in and ask a new question.
pacruz
Calcite | Level 5

I have the following code but want to limit the result to 10 instead of all the data. I thought firstobs=10 will make it happen but it did not. Please help!

 

DATA two;
infile 'C:\Users\paul\Downloads\btt.dat' firstobs=10;
input Childid 1-4 Sex 6 Bweight 8-11 Gestage 13-14 Momage 16-17
Parity 19 Mdbp 25-27 Momeduc 29 Mmedaid 31 socio 33 dbp5 35-37 sbp5 39-41
ht5 43-47 wt5 49-52 hdl5 54-57 ldl5 59-62 trig5 64-67 smoke5 69 medaid5 71
socio5 73;
BMI = ht5 / wt5**2;
run;
proc print data=two;
var Childid ht5 wt5 BMI;
run;

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Accepted Solutions
Astounding
PROC Star

Which are you trying to limit:

 

  • The number of observations in TWO
  • The number of observations printed by PROC PRINT

To limit the latter, use:

 

proc print data=two (obs=10);

var Childid ht5 wt5 BMI;
run;

View solution in original post

3 REPLIES 3
Astounding
PROC Star

Which are you trying to limit:

 

  • The number of observations in TWO
  • The number of observations printed by PROC PRINT

To limit the latter, use:

 

proc print data=two (obs=10);

var Childid ht5 wt5 BMI;
run;

pacruz
Calcite | Level 5
The number of observations printed by PROC PRINT
pacruz
Calcite | Level 5
It worked, thank you!

hackathon24-white-horiz.png

2025 SAS Hackathon: There is still time!

Good news: We've extended SAS Hackathon registration until Sept. 12, so you still have time to be part of our biggest event yet – our five-year anniversary!

Register Now

How to Concatenate Values

Learn how use the CAT functions in SAS to join values from multiple variables into a single value.

Find more tutorials on the SAS Users YouTube channel.

SAS Training: Just a Click Away

 Ready to level-up your skills? Choose your own adventure.

Browse our catalog!

Discussion stats
  • 3 replies
  • 2316 views
  • 0 likes
  • 2 in conversation