for what purpose would you use the retain statement? : Sas programming



for what purpose would you use the retain statement? : Sas programming..

Answer / Suman Rani

"The RETAIN statement in SAS is used to preserve values of variables across iterations or multiple data sets. It helps in maintaining consistent values for certain variables while processing loops, macros, or when merging data sets."

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