Return values, sort of

[Reeza]

What about using the sashelp.vtable instead? Or the dictionary tables?



That seems easy enough and seems to give the correct numbers if you take the right column, physical obs, logical obs, deleted observation...

The SUGI paper referenced seems outdated to me...

[sbb]

If the OP intends on supporting SAS MACRO LANGUAGE code, here's a few good starting points to get a leg-up on those programming opportunities and challenges ahead:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/mcrolref/61885/HTML/default/a002293969.htm

http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi26/p153-26.pdf

http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2008/175-2008.pdf

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.