SAS Component Language Dictionary

CLRFLD

Clears the value from variables whose values match a specified value

Category:

Control or Field

Syntax

CALL CLRFLD(pattern,variable-1<, . . . ,variable-10>);

pattern

is the character string to match.

Type: Character

variable-1, . . . , variable-10

names up to ten character variables. If the value of a variable in this list matches pattern, then that value is cleared.

Type: Character

Variables in the variable list whose values do not match pattern exactly are not changed. No error occurs if there are no matches.

Clear the value of any variable in the group SYM1 through SYM5 whose value is BLUE:

call clrfld('blue',sym1,sym2,sym3,sym4,sym5);