Main code with problem proc print data=SASHELP.CLASS(firstobs=5 obs=15); where Sex='M'; run; So the general meaning of the above program is that observations whose sex is 'Male' will starting reading from 5th record and stops at 15th record but instead SAS starts reading from 10th record and goes all the way to the end of the dataset up to 19th record. So, what is there I am missing here because I don't get the logic here at all?   SASHELP.CLASS dataset for reference proc print data=sashelp.class; run;   ... View more

CODE- libname xptfile xport '/home/u60697506/sasuser.v94/Permanants Libs/XPT/new.xpt'; data cars; set sashelp.cars; run; data xptfile.new; set cars; run; LOG- 1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 68 69 libname xptfile xport '/home/u60697506/sasuser.v94/Permanants Libs/XPT/new.xpt'; NOTE: Libref XPTFILE was successfully assigned as follows: Engine: XPORT Physical Name: /home/u60697506/sasuser.v94/Permanants Libs/XPT/new.xpt 70 71 data cars; 72 set sashelp.cars; 73 run; NOTE: There were 428 observations read from the data set SASHELP.CARS. NOTE: The data set WORK.CARS has 428 observations and 15 variables. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds user cpu time 0.00 seconds system cpu time 0.00 seconds memory 837.40k OS Memory 20388.00k Timestamp 09/11/2024 04:57:42 PM Step Count 38 Switch Count 2 Page Faults 0 Page Reclaims 130 Page Swaps 0 Voluntary Context Switches 10 Involuntary Context Switches 0 Block Input Operations 0 Block Output Operations 264 74 75 data xptfile.new; 76 set cars; 77 run; ERROR: The variable name DriveTrain is illegal for the version 6 file XPTFILE.NEW.DATA. NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. WARNING: The data set XPTFILE.NEW was only partially opened and will not be saved. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds user cpu time 0.00 seconds system cpu time 0.00 seconds memory 735.75k OS Memory 20388.00k Timestamp 09/11/2024 04:57:42 PM Step Count 39 Switch Count 0 Page Faults 0 Page Reclaims 59 Page Swaps 0 Voluntary Context Switches 10 Involuntary Context Switches 0 Block Input Operations 0 Block Output Operations 8 78 79 80 81 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 91 ... View more