The PRINT Procedure

Example 9: Printing All the Data Sets in a SAS Library

Features:

Macro facility

DATASETS procedure

PRINT procedure

Data set:

EXPREV and LIST

This example prints all the data sets in a SAS library. You can use the same programming logic with any procedure. Just replace the PROC PRINT step near the end of the example with whatever procedure step you want to execute. The example uses the macro language. For details about the macro language, see SAS Guide to Macro Processing, Version 6, Second Edition.

Program

libname printlib 'SAS-data-library'
options nodate pageno=1 linesize=80 pagesize=60;

proc datasets library=work memtype=data nolist;
   copy out=printlib;
      select list exprev;
run;

%macro printall(libname,worklib=work);

   %local num i;

   proc datasets library=&libname memtype=data nodetails;
      contents out=&worklib..temp1(keep=memname) data=_all_ noprint;
   run;

   data _null_;
      set &worklib..temp1 end=final;
      by memname notsorted;
      if last.memname;
      n+1;
      call symput('ds'||left(put(n,8.)),trim(memname));

      if final then call symput('num',put(n,8.));

   run;

   %do i=1 %to &num;
      proc print data=&libname..&&ds&i noobs;
         title "Data Set &libname..&&ds&i";
      run;
   %end;
%mend printall;

options nodate pageno=1 linesize=70 pagesize=60;
%printall(printlib)

Output

Chapter Contents
Previous
Next
Top of Page