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;