Interested to Buy Any Domain ? << Click Here >> for more details...
Why is a STOP statement needed for the point=option on a
SET statement?
- 2 Answers
- 12982 Views
- Quintiles, I also Faced
- E-Mail Answers
Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback
Answer / latha sunkara
When you use the POINT= option, you must include a STOP
statement to stop DATA step processing, programming logic
that checks for an invalid value of the POINT= variable, or
both. Because POINT= reads only those observations that are
specified in the DO statement, SAS cannot read an end-of-
file indicator as it would if the file were being read
sequentially. Because reading an end-of-file indicator ends
a DATA step automatically, failure to substitute another
means of ending the DATA step when you use POINT= can cause
the DATA step to go into a continuous loop.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 8 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / dupe
just to add to the previous answer, if the stop statement
is executed, SAS cannot proceed to the bottom of the
datastep, where a run statement is encountered which forces
an explisit output of observation. To overcome this, you
will need to include the output statement before the stop
statement.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 3 Yes | 2 No |
what is the SAS/ACCESS and SAS/CONNECT?
9 Answers Accenture, iFlex, TCS,
what are several options for creating reports in web report studio? : Sas-bi
what is prime numbers? how we can get plc write sas code?
What are the different servers in sas? : sas-grid-administration
How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?
The below code we are using for creating more than one macro variables in proc sql using into clause. How we can use same code to create macro variables vara, varb, varc instead of var1, var2, var3.? proc sql noprint; select count(distinct(patient)) into :var1 - :var3 from dataset1 group by trtreg1c ; quit;
For what purpose(s) would use the RETURN statement?
What are the difference between ceil and floor functions in sas?
what has been your most common programming mistake? : Sas programming
What is the difference between nodupkey and nodup options?
what are the different ways of merging two datasets.name atleast 4.
What is difference between rename and lable in sas?
Teradata 
