On 14 May 2004 07:01:08 -0700, tatasphani@yahoo.com (kumar) wrote:

>can any body explain what exactly this does I mean the Functions that >are used it SAS/AF application

A set of AF/Frame and SCL manuals would be your best bet. As you presumably don't have them, I'll do it for this time, but just this once:-)

>st = open ('a.status (keep = Idate prdate ');

Opens a SAS dataset called a.status, keeping only the variables specified. A pointer value is stored in variable st.

>contol always ; "control always; ", I assume. This means that the MAIN portion of the SCL program will be executed every time the User presses enter.

>call set(st); Links variables in the SCL program with the same-named variables on the dataset pointed to by the pointer variable st.

>rc = fetchobs(st,1);

Reads the first record from the dataset pointed to by the pointer variable st. Because of the SET call above, the values of dataset variables Idate and prdate from that record are now available in the SCL program.

>and Most important all what is RC stands for and what does it do and >last one

RC is just a return code from the fetchobs call. It will contain a value of zero if the specified record was read, -1 if you're trying to read past the end of the datast, or some other non-zero value if there's some other error.

>Thank you.

You're welcome.

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