The COMPARE Procedure

Example 1: Producing a Complete Report of the Differences

Procedure features:

PROC COMPARE statement options

BASE=

PRINTALL

COMPARE=

Data sets:

PROCLIB.ONE, PROCLIB.TWO

This example shows the most complete report that PROC COMPARE produces as procedure output.

Program

libname proclib 'SAS-data-library';

options nodate pageno=1 linesize=80 pagesize=40;

proc compare base=proclib.one compare=proclib.two printall;
   title 'Comparing Two Data Sets: Full Report';
run;

Output

A ✓ in the output marks information that is in the full report but not in the default report. The additional information includes a listing of variables found in one data set but not the other, a listing of observations found in one data set but not the other, a listing of variables with all equal values, and summary statistics. For an explanation of the statistics, see Table of Summary Statistics .

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