Date:         Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:08:45 -0700
Reply-To:     Jan Sollmann <jan.sollmann@AXA-FINANCIAL.COM>
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From:         Jan Sollmann <jan.sollmann@AXA-FINANCIAL.COM>
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Subject:      Adding variable with constant value to big SAS dataset
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I want to add a new character variable with a constant value to a very
big existing dataset. The obvious way to do this would be:

data a;
  set b;
  new_var='constant';
run;

Is there a way to achieve this without inputing the whole dataset,
which is very time consuming?