Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:04:56 -0600
Reply-To:     Frank Berger <Frank.D.Berger@DAL.FRB.ORG>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Frank Berger <Frank.D.Berger@DAL.FRB.ORG>
Organization: Federal Reserve Board
Subject:      Re: Why doesn't NOBS work?
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Hmmm....out of curiosity I tried this under AIX...doesn't work.  It seems
that with zero observations in the dataset, SAS won't do anything,
including assigning the value of nobs (0) to a variable.
 
Bertil Runstrvm wrote:
 
> Yes, change your code to:
> data _null_;
> 544   set search nobs=nobs;
> 545   file print;
> 546     if nobs=0 and _n_ le 1 then put
> 547     'EMPTY DATA SET!!!';
> 548  run;
> Best regards
> Bertil Runstrvm
>
> E. S. skrev i meddelandet
> <19981230161252.13794.rocketmail@web305.yahoomail.com>...
> >This piece of code will work in the mainframe, but for some reason it
> >won't in the PC.  Any ideas as of why??
> >
> >543  data _null_;
> >544   set search;
> >545   file print;
> >546     if nobs=0 and _n_ le 1 then put
> >547     'EMPTY DATA SET!!!';
> >548  run;