DELETE Call

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DELETE Call

deletes a SAS data set

CALL DELETE( <libname,> member-name);

The inputs to the DELETE subroutine are as follows:

libname: is a character matrix or quoted literal containing the name of a SAS data library.
member-name: is a character matrix or quoted literal containing the name of a data set.

The DELETE subroutine deletes a SAS data set in the specified library. If a one word name is specified, the default SAS data library is used. (See the DEFLIB= option in the description of the RESET statement.)

Some examples follow.

   call delete(work,a);  /* deletes WORK.A  */

   reset deflib=work;    /* sets default libname to WORK */
   call delete(a);       /* also deletes WORK.A */

   d=datasets('work');   /* returns all data sets in WORK */
   call delete(work,d[1]);
                         /* deletes data set whose name is */
                         /* first element of matrix D */

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