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In the Compute Block: Issues Associated With Using and Naming Variables

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Overview In the compute block of the PROC REPORT step variables can be both created and used. They may be on the incoming data table, they may be computed in the REPORT step, they can be statistical summaries, and they may even be artificially created by the REPORT process. In the DATA step each variable has a name and that variable's name is used whenever one wants to address a particular value on the Program Data Vector. In the REPORT step things are not so simple. The origins and use of a variable will determine how it is to be named in a compute block.

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Publisher	SAS Institute	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2007	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Programming Languages

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