Working with SAS Data Sets

Data Set Maintenance Functions

Two functions and two subroutines are provided to perform data set maintenance:

DATASETS function: obtains members in a data library. This function returns a character matrix containing the names of the SAS data sets in a library.
CONTENTS function: obtains variables in a member. This function returns a character matrix containing the variable names for the SAS data set specified by libname and memname. The variable list is returned in alphabetical order.
RENAME subroutine: renames a SAS data set member in a specified library.
DELETE subroutine: deletes a SAS data set member in a specified library.

See Chapter 20 for details and examples of these functions and routines.