The CATALOG Procedure

Example 2: Displaying Contents, Changing Names, and Changing a Description

Procedure features:

PROC CATALOG statement

CHANGE statement options:

(ENTRYTYPE=) or (ET=)

CONTENTS statement options:

FILE=

MODIFY statement

RUN statement

QUIT statement

This example

lists the entries in a catalog and routes the output to a file
changes entry names
changes entry descriptions
processes entries in multiple run groups.

Program

options nodate pageno=1 linesize=80 pagesize=60 source;

libname perm 'SAS-data-library';

proc catalog catalog=perm.finance; contents; title1 'Contents of PERM.FINANCE before changes are made'; run;

change dept=deptcode (et=formatc); run;

modify loan.frame (description='Loan analysis app. - ver1'); contents; title1 'Contents of PERM.FINANCE after changes are made'; run; quit;

Output

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