Still trying to learn SAS and came across an interesting question/sample of code   This is the sample question/code   data WORK.LOOP; X = 0; do Index = 1 to 5 by 3; X = Index; end; run;   So I can see that the final output is   X=4 Index=7   I understand that the Index starts at 1, then increments by 3 and so forth. So technically the index output should be   Index=1 Index=4   This is where things get muddy for me.   If Index = 4, and the next value is greater then 5 I would have thought the final output would be   X=4 Index=4   Why would this not be the final output?   Hope this makes sense, been quite a long day reading through stuff ... View more

I am just starting out on my journey with SAS and am a bit confused about some SAS output.   I run this following code   DATA dates; INPUT name$ bday date11.; CARDS; Sam 3 Jan 1960 George 12 Jul 1980 Lisa 14 feb 1975 Sean 14 feb 1975 ; RUN; PROC PRINT DATA=dates; FORMAT bday date9.; RUN;   And notice that there is basically two outputs.   One output is the temporary data table. With this output, I am seeing the 'bday' column showing dates in a pure numeric format (SAS date format).   Whereas I also see the HTML output is displaying the 'bday' column with the dates as 03JAN1960 for example.   I am just curious, why there seems to be two different outputs?  ... View more