Name statements that are recognized at compile time only?

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Name statements that are recognized at compile time only?..

Answer / dupe

Array statements are also compile time only statements

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Name statements that are recognized at compile time only?..

Answer / vijay

sirisha thanx for the answers,
but i believe all the global statements (wht u mentioned )
including options, title, footnote statements; will work at
both compile and execution time..

only compile drop, keep,
rename,label,format,informat,attrib, where,by, retain,
length statements are comile time statements only

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Name statements that are recognized at compile time only?..

Answer / hasnain

Retain, Array, length

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Name statements that are recognized at compile time only?..

Answer / pratik singh jageera

Apart from doing numerous tasks during the compilation phase..
SAS also processes statements which are limited to compile time.These statements provide information to the compiler as to how the things will be set up in the PDV.they include
drop keep rename retain array by where attrib length format label.it also sets up automatic variables:
_N_ _ERROR_ IN= END= POINT= FIRST. LAST.

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Name statements that are recognized at compile time only?..

Answer / sirisha

all global statements like
filename,libname,run,endsas...etc...are recognized at
compile time only.

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Name statements that are recognized at compile time only?..

Answer / sirisha

all global statements like
filename,libname,run,endsas...etc...are recognized at
compile time only.

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