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What is _n_?
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Answer / d.vijaya bhaskar
SAS variable to count the no of obs read.
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Answer / natraj boga
An internal SAS counter in the data step which contains the
current iteration number of the data step.
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Answer / varun kumar
_n_ is a automatic variable that can be used for processing.
It counts the number of times the data set begin to execute.
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Answer / ashok kore
This is an automatic variable. It is used to count the
number of obs in dataset.Its added one for every iteration
of datastep.
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Answer / chiranjeevi
The _n_ is a automatic variable which displays the line number.
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Answer / venkatesh.layam
while execution process automatic variable _n_ will be
created.it tells how many times data step has been
executed .
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Answer / pricil kurian
Hi ravi..ur answer is correct. ONE QUERY...for the below
example to get third record consecuitvely we need to
if mod(_n_,3)= 0 ; is in't?
Eg. If we want to find every third record in a Dataset then
we can use the _n_ as follows
Data new-sas-data-set;
Set old;
if mod(_n_,3)= 0 then;
run;
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Answer / mani
The automatic
variable _n_ counts iterations of the DATA step.
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Answer / mahesh
Its an automatic variable.it shows no. of iterations gone
through in datastep.
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