The ACCESS Procedure for PC Files

LIST Statement

Lists columns in the descriptor and gives information about them.

Valid:	for DBF, DIF, WK1, WK3, WK4, Excel 4, Excel 5, and Excel 95 file formats under Windows operating environments
Applies to:	access descriptor or view descriptor
Default:	ALL

LIST ALL|VIEW|<'column-identifier' >;

Details

The LIST statement lists columns in the descriptor along with information about the columns. You can use the LIST statement when creating an access descriptor or a view descriptor. The LIST information is written to your SAS log.

If you use an editing statement, such as LIST, it must follow the CREATE statement and the database-description statements when you create a descriptor. You can specify LIST as many times as you want while creating a descriptor; specify LIST last in your PROC ACCESS code to see the entire descriptor. Or, if you are creating multiple descriptors, specify LIST before the next CREATE statement in order to list all information about the descriptor that you are creating.

The LIST statement can take one or more of these arguments:

ALL

lists all columns in the PC file, the positional equivalents, the SAS variable names, and the SAS variable formats that are available for the access descriptor. When you are creating an access descriptor, *NON-DISPLAY* appears next to the column description for any column that has been dropped. When you are creating a view descriptor, *SELECTED* appears next to the column description for columns that you have selected for the view.

VIEW

lists all columns that are selected for the view descriptor, along with their positional equivalents, their SAS names and formats, and any subsetting clauses. Any columns that were dropped in the access descriptor are not displayed. The VIEW argument is valid only for a view descriptor.

column-identifier

lists the specified column name, its positional equivalent, its SAS variable name and format, and whether the column has been selected. If the column name contains lowercase characters, special characters, or national characters, enclose the name in quotation marks.

The column-identifier argument can be either the column name or the positional equivalent. This is the number that represents the column's place in the descriptor. For example, to list information about the fifth column in the descriptor, submit this statement:

LIST 5;

You can use one or more of these previously described options in a LIST statement, in any order.

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