I don't understand, where's your problem! What do you want to do? Create another dataset from your empty one with the same structure? The following log shows, that this is no problem:

58 data test; 59 length a $11 b $20 c 8; stop; 60 run;

NOTE: Variable A is uninitialized. NOTE: Variable B is uninitialized. NOTE: Variable C is uninitialized. NOTE: The data set WORK.TEST has 0 observations and 3 variables. NOTE: The DATA statement used 0.29 seconds.

61 62 data xy; 63 set test; 64 run;

NOTE: The data set WORK.XY has 0 observations and 3 variables. NOTE: The DATA statement used 0.25 seconds.

Or what is it, what you want to do with TEST? Add FSEDIT? No problem:

data test; length a $11 b $20 c 8; stop; run;

proc fsedit data=test; run;

What is it????

jzhang@QRRG.QUINTILES.COM on 01.03.2000 06:59:52

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I have a sas dataset, only with variable names and no any observations. I use it to create another SAS dataset for my analysis.

I find out it not working as the dataset is empty. Do anybody have some ideas how to overcome it?

TIA.

John Zhang

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