Specifies whether SAS statements are written to a utility data
set in the WORK data library.
| Valid in: |
configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS
statement, SAS System Options window
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| Category: |
Input control: Data Processing
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| PROC OPTIONS GROUP= |
INPUTCONTROL
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SPOOL
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specifies that SAS write statements to a
utility data set in the WORK data library for later use by a %INCLUDE or %LIST
statement, or by the RECALL command, within a windowing environment.
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NOSPOOL
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specifies that SAS does not write statements
to a utility data set. Specifying NOSPOOL accelerates execution time, but
you cannot use the %INCLUDE and %LIST statements to resubmit SAS statements
that were executed earlier in the session.
Specifying SPOOL is especially helpful in interactive
line mode because you can resubmit a line or lines of code by referring to
the line numbers. Here is an example of code including line numbers:
00001 data test;
00002 input w x y z;
00003 datalines;
00004 411.365 101.945 323.782 512.398
00005 ;
If SPOOL is in effect, you can resubmit line number
1 by submitting this statement:
%inc 1;
You can also resubmit a range of lines by placing a
colon (:) or dash (-) between the line numbers. For example, these statements
resubmit lines 1 through 3 and 4 through 5 of the above example:
%inc 1:3;
%inc 4-5;
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