OBS

OBS

Causes processing to end with the nth observation

Default: MAX, or 2,147,483,647

Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window

Windows specifics: Valid range

Syntax
Details
See Also

Syntax

-OBS n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MAX | MIN

OBS=n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MAX | MIN

n | nK | nM | nG: specifies the number of the last obserervation to process in multiples of 1; 1,024 (kilobytes); 1,048,576 (megabytes); and 1,073,741,824 (gigabytes), respectively. For example, a value of 8 specifies 8 bytes and a value of 3M specifies 3,145,728 bytes.
hexX: specifies the number of the last observation to process as a hexadecimal number. This number must be followed by an X.
MAX: specifies the maximum number of observations to process. Under Windows, the value of MAX is 2,147,483,647. This is the default.
MIN: specifies to set the number of the last observation to process to 0.

Details

The OBS system option specifies which observation from a data set or which record from a raw data file that SAS reads last.

See Also

OBS system option in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

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Default:	MAX, or 2,147,483,647
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window
Windows specifics:	Valid range