Date:         Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:17:49 -0400
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From:         GORRELP1 <GORRELP1@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re[3]: The WHERE statement does not work for rawdata
Comments: To: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
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Obviously not.  But it's a good place to start.
 
Paul Gorrell
gorrelp1@westat.com
 
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Subject:    Re[2]: The WHERE statement does not work for rawdata
Author: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
Date:       04/21/1999 2:08 PM
 
 
Does this mean that this thread is mow dead?
 
 
 
At 02:54 PM 4/21/99 -0400, GORRELP1 wrote:
>The SAS Language Reference (p. 367) states:
>
>"The subsetting IF statement selects observations that have been read into the
>program data vector.  The WHERE statement selects observations before they are
>brought into the program data vector.  The subsetting IF is less efficient than
>the WHERE statement because it must read each observation from the input data
>set into the program data vector."
>
>Paul Gorrell
>gorrelp1@westat.com
>