The CATALOG Procedure

CONTENTS Statement

Lists the contents of a catalog in the procedure output or writes a list of the contents to a SAS data set, an external file, or both.

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Displaying Contents, Changing Names, and Changing a Description

CONTENTS <OUT=SAS-data-set> <FILE=fileref>;

Without Options

The output is sent to the procedure output.

Options

Note: The ENTRYTYPE= (ET=) option is not available for the CONTENTS statement. [cautionend]

CATALOG=<libref.>catalog

specifies the SAS catalog to process.

Alias:	CAT=, C=
Default:	None

FILE=fileref

sends the contents to an external file, identified with a SAS fileref.

Interaction:

If fileref has not been previously assigned to a file, then the file is created and named according to operating environment-dependent rules for external files.

OUT=SAS-data-set

sends the contents to a SAS data set. When the statement executes, a message on the SAS log reports that a data set has been created. The data set contains six variables in the following order:

LIBNAME	the libref
MEMNAME	the catalog name
NAME	the names of entries
TYPE	the types of entries
DESC	the descriptions of entries
DATE	the dates entries were last modified.

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