CATALOG Procedure

CONTENTS Statement

Lists the contents of a catalog in the procedure output or writes a list of the contents to a SAS data set, an external file, or both.

Note:	ENTRYTYPE= (ET=) option is not available for the CONTENTS statement.
Example:	Displaying Contents, Changing Names, and Changing a Description

Syntax

Without Arguments

Optional Arguments

Syntax

CONTENTS <CATALOG=<libref.>catalog > <OUT=SAS-data-set> <FILE=fileref>;

Without Arguments

The output is sent to the procedure output.

Optional Arguments

CATALOG=<libref.>catalog: specifies the SAS catalog to process.

Alias:CAT=, C=

Default:None

FILE=fileref: sends the contents to an external file, identified with a SAS fileref.

Interaction:If fileref has not been previously assigned to a file, then the file is created and named according to operating environment-dependent rules for external files.

OUT=SAS-data-set

sends the contents to a SAS data set. When the statement executes, a message on the SAS log reports that a data set has been created. The data set contains six variables in the following order:

LIBNAME	the libref
MEMNAME	the catalog name
NAME	the names of entries
TYPE	the types of entries
DESC	the descriptions of entries
DATE	the dates entries were last modified.