A
SAS statement is a string of SAS keywords, SAS names,
special characters, and operators that instructs SAS to perform an
operation or that gives information to SAS. Each SAS statement ends
with a semicolon.
This documentation covers
two types of SAS statements:
-
statements that are used in DATA
step programming
-
statements that are global in scope
and can be used anywhere in a SAS program.
In addition to the statements
documented in
SAS Statements: Reference, statements are also documented
in the following publications: