| Date: | Thu, 9 Oct 1997 14:25:17 -0700 |
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| Reply-To: | Bill Dvorak <bdvorak@MAILEXCITE.COM> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Bill Dvorak <bdvorak@MAILEXCITE.COM> |
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| Organization: | MailExcite (http://www.mailexcite.com) |
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| Subject: | Re: KEY= Option of the SET Statement |
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>Has anyone successfully used the KEY option in the SET statement of a data
>step? When I use the sample code provided in Technical Report P-222
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> data combine;
> set invtory(keep=partno instock price);
> set partcode(keep=partno desc) key=partno;
> run;
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>I get the following error:
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> ERROR: No key variables have been defined for file PARTCODE.
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>Any suggestions or tips?
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>Thanks,
>Jeff Cummings
>NationsBank
>
Have you created an index for the file partcode? I think you need to create an index
with PROC DATASETS to then use a variable as a key.
Bill
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