SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9, Third Edition

Selecting Variables

Overview

By default, a PROC PRINT step lists all the variables in a data set. You can select variables and control the order in which they appear by using a VAR statement in your PROC PRINT step.

General form, VAR statement: VAR variable(s); where variable(s) is one or more variable names, separated by blanks.

For example, the following VAR statement specifies that only the variables Age, Height, Weight, and Fee be printed, in that order:

proc print data=clinic.admit;
   var age height weight fee; 
run;

The procedure output from the PROC PRINT step with the VAR statement lists only the values for the variables Age, Height, Weight, and Fee.

Procedure Output

In addition to selecting variables, you can control ...