SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition

Selecting Variables

The PROC PRINT Step

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.

Syntax, VAR statement: VAR variable(s); 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 those variables.

Figure 5.2 PRINT Procedure Output

In addition to selecting variables, you can suppress observation ...