The CONTENTS procedure shows
the contents of a SAS data set and prints the directory of the SAS
library.
Generally, the CONTENTS
procedure functions the same as the CONTENTS statement in the DATASETS
procedure. The differences between the CONTENTS procedure and the
CONTENTS statement in PROC DATASETS are as follows:
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The default for
libref in
the DATA= option in PROC CONTENTS is WORK. For the CONTENTS statement,
the default is the libref of the procedure input library.
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PROC CONTENTS can read sequential
files. The CONTENTS statement cannot.
