If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you
need only five of those, what is the code to force SAS to
use only those variable?

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If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you need only five of those, what is the co..

Answer / vsrao

keep option

data ddd;
set sss(keep=a b c d e);
run;

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If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you need only five of those, what is the co..

Answer / guest

My guess is to use Keep statement.

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If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you need only five of those, what is the co..

Answer / ram pabba

It is true to use KEEP option on a dataset to only select
few variables from 100 variables.
We can use KEEP option either on set statement or data
step statement. If we use on SET statement then only the
five variables are created on pdv and only these variables
are sent to the output dataset. If we use KEEP option on
data step statement then all the variables are copied into
pdv and after any maniuplation only the selected variables
on data step statement are processed and sent to output
dataset.

data abc;
set xyz (keep= ab cd ef gh);
run;

data abc(keep= ab cd ef gh ij);
set xyz;
ij=ab+jk;
run;

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If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you need only five of those, what is the co..

Answer / guest

My guess is also the keep statement to keep only 5
variables out of 100 variables..

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If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you need only five of those, what is the co..

Answer / purnimaprasad

Use keep statement to keep only 5 variables out of 100
variables

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If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you need only five of those, what is the co..

Answer / kishore kumar

If ur reading data from any dataset we will use keep option
like set data1(keep = 5 variables);,If ur using in any
procedure just with var statement.If u want to display to
have output with only 5variables out of 100 just use keep
option with data statement.

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If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you need only five of those, what is the co..

Answer / soniya

in data set - use keep
in proc step- use var ,id statements

ex-
data a;
infile urfilename;
input score1-score100;
keep sore1-score5;
run;

input a;
input score1-scor100
run;
proc print data=a;
var score1-score5;
id score1-score5;
run;

observe id-in this statement nuber of obs not displed in
out put

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If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you need only five of those, what is the co..

Answer / sudheer

var is the statement which will be used to get the variable
which are required in the output window, they are also
other answer for it when u r using proc guidelines.

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If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you need only five of those, what is the co..

Answer / chiranjeevi

My guess is using data set option i.e keep
it is used for it decides the no. of variable should remain
with in the dataset
keep<variable list>

2)var statement
it is a keyword or statement used to specify the analysis
variables.The analysis variables are those,which is required
to be restructured.

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If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you need only five of those, what is the co..

Answer / shaik parwez

Using Keep option

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