The FCMP procedure provides a small set of special use functions. You can call these
functions from user-defined FCMP functions but you cannot call these functions directly
from the DATA step. To use these functions in a DATA step, you must wrap the special
function inside another user-defined FCMP function.
Note:You can call special functions directly in a procedure, but not in the DATA step.
Functions and CALL Routines by Category
Reading Arrays and Writing Arrays to a Data Set
PROC FCMP provides the READ_ARRAY function to read arrays, and the
WRITE_ARRAY function to write arrays to a data set. This ...
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