Total observations

[yael]

Hello

I have a sas file of 4345 lines of observations while it is written to me in the output that the total lines are 8386 (the difference are lines with dots). I do not understand what made it but my question is how to delete these lines

Thanks a lot for any help

[Reeza · Accepted solution]

Did you import the file from a text or excel file? If so, you'll want to fix that step so it imports correctly. 

if you have a key variable you can check if that's present and delete otherwise. 

If missing(key_var) then delete;

[yael]

thanks