Obtaining Descriptive Information on Cross Sections with OUTBY
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SAS Sample Library
Name: datgs03.sas
Description: Example program from SAS/ETS User's Guide,
The DATASOURCE Procedure
Title: Obtaining Descriptive Information on Cross Sections with OUTBY
Product: SAS/ETS Software
System: ALL
Keys: DATASOURCE data extraction from various sources
Procs: DATASOURCE
Data: sasmisc: imfifs1.dat (DATASOURCE database files)
Notes: Read this before you run this sample.
The database resides in the ets/sasmisc folder. You
must copy the database to a writeable folder before
using it. Then define your Windows system environment
variable, DATASRC_DATA, to the path of your
writeable folder containing
the imfifs1.dat file.
To assign a fileref to the external file to be processed,
use the following form of the filename statement:
filename ifsfile "%sysget(DATASRC_DATA)imfifs1.dat" RECFM=F LRECL=88;
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filename ifsfile "%sysget(DATASRC_DATA)imfifs1.dat" RECFM=F LRECL=88;
proc datasource
filetype=imfifsp infile=ifsfile
outselect=on ebcdic
interval=month
outby=xsection;
run;
title1 'Some Cross Sections Available in IFSFILE';
proc print data=xsection;
run;