Procedures under UNIX

CONTENTS Procedure: UNIX

Prints the description of the contents of one or more files from a SAS library.

UNIX specifics:	information displayed in the SAS output
See:	CONTENTS Procedure in Base SAS Procedures Guide

Syntax
Details
Example

Syntax

PROC CONTENTS<option(s)>;

Details

The CONTENTS procedure produces the same information as the CONTENTS statement in the DATASETS procedure. (See DATASETS Procedure: UNIX for a comparison.)

Example

The following SAS code creates two data sets, classes.grades and classes.majors , and executes PROC CONTENTS to describe the classes.majors data set:

options nodate pageno=1;
libname classes '.';

data classes.grades (label='First Data Set');
   input student year state $ grade1 grade2;
   label year='Year of Birth';
   format grade1 4.1;
   datalines;
1000 1980 NC 85 87
1042 1981 MD 92 92
1095 1979 PA 78 72
1187 1980 MA 87 94
;

data classes.majors(label='Second Data Set');
   input student $ year state $ grade1 grade2 major $;
   label state='Home State';
   format grade1 5.2;
   datalines;
1000 1980 NC 84 87 Math
1042 1981 MD 92 92 History
1095 1979 PA 79 73 Physics
1187 1980 MA 87 74 Dance
1204 1981 NC 82 96 French
;

proc contents data=classes.majors;
run;

Output from the CONTENTS Procedure

                                The SAS System                               1

                            The CONTENTS Procedure

Data Set Name        CLASSES.MAJORS                   Observations          5 
Member Type          DATA                             Variables             6 
Engine               V9                               Indexes               0 
Created              Tuesday, August 22,              Observation Length    48
                     2006 03:10:46 PM                                         
Last Modified        Tuesday, August 22,              Deleted Observations  0 
                     2006 03:10:46 PM                                         
Protection                                            Compressed            NO
Data Set Type                                         Sorted                NO
Label                Second Data Set                                          
Data Representation  HP_UX_64, RS_6000_AIX--64,
                     SOLARIS_64, HP_IA64     
Encoding             latin1  Western (ISO)                               


                      Engine/Host Dependent Information

          Data Set Page Size          8192                          
          Number of Data Set Pages    1                             
          First Data Page             1                             
          Max Obs per Page            169                            
          Obs in First Data Page      5                             
          Number of Data Set Repairs  0                             
          File Name                   /user/xxxxxx/majors.sas7bdat
          Release Created             9.0201B0                      
          Host Created                HP_UX                        
          Inode Number                592
          Access Permission           rw-r- -r- -
          Owner Name                  xxxxxx 
          File Size (bytes)           16384

                  Alphabetic List of Variables and Attributes
 
             #    Variable    Type    Len    Format    Label

             4    grade1      Num       8    5.2                 
             5    grade2      Num       8                        
             6    major       Char      8                        
             3    state       Char      8              Home State
             1    student     Char      8                        
             2    year        Num       8

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