Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?

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Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is
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Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?..

Answer / amaran

Datalines or Cards - They should be the Last statement in
your Data step. all the ohers can be placed any where
between the Data & Datalines statement.

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Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?..

Answer / suresh

Input
inifle
run

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Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?..

Answer / pratik singh jageera

The placement of drop keep and rename statement does not affect its execution order.The order is fixed in the order
DROP-KEEP-RENAME.Even if you put a rename statement(rename old_var=new_var;) before a drop statement.The drop statement will look for old_var as it is executed prior to rename statement.
Length can be the answer as its placement is very important.Changing the length value of a variable after the set statement will not carry out the necessary change.It has to be done before set statement.

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Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?..

Answer / vsrao

data,run

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Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?..

Answer / vijay

first preference goes to run;
next - placement of ; if you use datalines
next - use of infile and input
next - use of retain and length statements

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Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?..

Answer / raghu

data
input
cards/datalines
run

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Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?..

Answer / lakshmi

data,run,semicolon

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Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?..

Answer / meena

Placement of the last six statements (shown below) is critical
because the attributes of variables are determined
by the first reference to the compiler:
drop, keep, rename
label
retain
length
format, informat
attrib
array
by

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Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?..

Answer / chandra sekar

Keep, Drop and Rename can also play a critical role if you
are using some of the variables listed in them.

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Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?..

Answer / sasfaqs

input is the critical step

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