By stopping before you output and if you want before you read any obs. Use the STOP statement.
data likeshoes;
stop;
set sashelp.shoes;
run;
Log:
NOTE: The data set WORK.LIKESHOES has 0 observations and 7 variables.
Other methods - use OBS=0 on the SET statement, or PROC SQL with the LIKE statement.
data likeshoes;
set sashelp.shoes (obs=0);
run;
proc sql;
create table test like sashelp.shoes;
quit;
By stopping before you output and if you want before you read any obs. Use the STOP statement.
data likeshoes;
stop;
set sashelp.shoes;
run;
Log:
NOTE: The data set WORK.LIKESHOES has 0 observations and 7 variables.
Other methods - use OBS=0 on the SET statement, or PROC SQL with the LIKE statement.
data likeshoes;
set sashelp.shoes (obs=0);
run;
proc sql;
create table test like sashelp.shoes;
quit;
Datastep:
Method1:
data data2;
set sashelp.class(obs=0);
run;
proc print data=data2;
run;
Method2:
data data3;
stop;
set sashelp.class;
run;
SQL :
proc sql;
create table data4 like sashelp.class;
quit;
To create a zero observation dataset with column specifications:
DATA work.MEMBER;
LENGTH NAME $ 28 DOB 4;
FORMAT DOB DATE9.;
INFORMAT DOB DATE9.;
STOP;
RUN;
It is same like Create Table doing PROC SQL.
proc sql;
create table work.member
(Name varchar(28) ,
DOB num format date9.
);
quit;
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