Understanding DATA Step Processing

Debugging and Testing DATA Steps

Understanding DATA Step Processing

Look at the DATA step below. Not counting the automatic variables, how many variables should the program data vector contain? The data set Site7.Sale contains 6 variables.

  data site7.qtr1sale;
     set site7.sale;
     Bonus=250;
     SalesRepTotal=salary+bonus;
  run;

Description of Site7.Sale

Variable Type Length

SalesRep C 3

Salary N 8

Region C 1

Goal N 8

Year N 8

Sale N 8

6
7
8
10