What is _n_?
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Answer / chandra sekar
_N_ gives the record number. You can access any record in
the dataset using _N_ if you know the record number. It is
set as 1 for the first record and incremented for every
subsequent record. It is an automatic variable and is not
visible when you open a dataset. This can also be used to
subset a data. For ex, if you want to access the first 100
records then you can say "if _N_ <= 100".
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Answer / vijay
suresh is write.
_n_ : gives the number of times SAS system looped through a
data step
Sudheer's answer is for _error_ :
_error_ : gives value of 0 or 1 depending on it is error or
not..if it is an error _error_ value will be 1 else 0
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Answer / yadi acho
_n_ is auto number drive in SAS...
if use fro data step look like this
data test1;
set test;
test_field=_n_;
run;
diferent if auto number for SQL procedure u can use this
proc sql;
create table test1 as
select *,monotonic() as test_field
from test;
quit;
cheers!!
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Answer / mallikarjuna raju
This is an automatic variable of PDV that returns the no of
observations that it has iterated.There are such variables
like _Error_,end=,in=,first.by-variable,last.by-variable,..etc
All these variables will not be displayed in the target output.
Ex:
Data new;
set <existed>;
if _n_>=2 and <=6 then output;
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Answer / amaran
Can i used _n_ in proc sql; Or its only for Datasteo
_n_ is a Autometic variable created in a datastep. It is a
part of PDV. It is used to store the iteration count of the
Input statement.
Proc SQL doesnot create a PDV. so _n_ variable cannot be
used there.
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Answer / ragivenk189
It acts like a pointer and can be used to subset your data
set _n_=10 in data step will force SAS to process the data
until first 10 observations
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Answer / rajesh
Compiling time of the program in PDV automatically some
variables will generate, like _N_ and _Error_, _numeric_
_N_ will give the observation in the program. by default
_N_ value is 0, after compiling it will chage according to
the observations in the program.
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Answer / guest
Can i used _n_ in proc sql; Or its only for Datasteo
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