The DATASETS Procedure

Example 4: Describing a SAS Data Set

Procedure features:

CONTENTS statement option:

DATA=

Other features:

SAS data set option:

READ=

This example shows the output from the CONTENTS statement for the GROUP data set. The output shows the modifications made to the GROUP data set in Modifying SAS Data Sets .

Program

options pagesize=40 linesize=132 nodate pageno=1;

libname health 'SAS-data-library';

proc datasets library=health nolist;

   contents data=group(read=green) out=grpout;
   title  'The Contents of the GROUP Data Set';
run;

Output

(UNIX Environment)

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