Date:         Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:18:57 -0600
Reply-To:     Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: proc contents with selected datasets?
Comments: To: Ya Huang <ya.huang@amylin.com>
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Looks to me that you cannot do what you want directly, as you have the
choice of 1 dataset or all datasets.  The only way I could think of getting
precisely what you want in terms of output would be to create a bunch of
views in a new libname and use _all_ there; or to create the full output
using _ALL_ and then edit the output programatically, taking advantage of
the fact that it creates a new page for each dataset (As far as I can
tell).  Finally, you could gen up code to do the DIRECTORY only for _all_,
and then do individual proc contents for each dataset you actually want.

-Joe

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Ya Huang <ya.huang@amylin.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Is there a real simple way to do something like this:
>
> proc contents data=sashelp._all_;
> run;
>
> Except that _all_ is list of selected datasets, such as
> all those start abc:,
>
> I'd like to keep the typical layout of proc contents: this first
> section is directory level list, then followed by dataset level details.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ya
> PS. I can certainly generate a list based on meta data, but then
> the output layout will be different.
>