Date:         Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:02:34 +0100
Reply-To:     John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
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From:         John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: How to make a dataset with 0 observations?
Comments: To: "Shilling, Brian [PRI]" <BShillin@PRIUS.JNJ.COM>
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At 13:24 06/06/01 -0400, Shilling, Brian [PRI] wrote:

>you could shorten the keystrokes even more by leaving out the data set name;
>
>data;
>x=y;
>stop;
>run;
>
>would create a work dataset called DATA1.

Well, it might!  It might also create a dataset called DATA273 (or
whatever!) depending upon what else had been happening in the programme;
it therefore could be a little difficult to 'reference' it!

>How is that for messy?

Far from full marks, I fear - (a) you didn't omit the RUN statement and (b)
you wrote each statement on a different lining, 'wasting' CR keystrokes :-)

Kind Regards


John

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