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Moise
Fluorite | Level 6
 

Hello, 

I have to compare 2 large datasets using proc compare with printing the results.  I used the code below 

Proc compare base=tab1 comp=tab2 ; id anonymat gender; run;

But I have this warning message for all the variables not in ID statement

Note: The MAXPRINT=50 printing limit has been reached for the variable birthdate. No more values will be printed for this comparison

How to solve it?

Thanks

 

 

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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

The NOTE is telling you want to do.

Add the MAXPRINT= option to the PROC COMPARE statement.

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Reeza
Super User
Don't print the results - use the output data sets instead.
SASKiwi
PROC Star

How many differences does your COMPARE difference summary report? You can use the MAXPRINT option to print more differences but beyond a few hundred the output gets too large an other techniques become more useful.

ballardw
Super User

You may need to sort by more variables than the ID variables if there multiple values of the ID var combinations.

 

 

Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

The NOTE is telling you want to do.

Add the MAXPRINT= option to the PROC COMPARE statement.

Moise
Fluorite | Level 6
Thank you very much MAXPINT= was the solution to my problem.

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