SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition

Assigning Permanent Labels and Formats

Common Tasks and Their Corresponding Statements

You saw how to temporarily assign labels and formats within a PROC step in Creating List Reports. These temporary labels and formats are applicable only for the duration of the step. To permanently assign labels and formats, you use LABEL and FORMAT statements in DATA steps.

Note: Labels and formats do not affect how data is stored in the data set, but only how it appears in output.

Task	Statement to Use
Reference a SAS data library Reference an external file	libname clinic 'c:\users\may\data'; filename tests 'c:\users\tmill.dat';
Name a SAS data set Identify an external file Describe raw data	data clinic.stress; infile tests obs=10; ...