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The Little SAS Book: A Primer, Fifth Edition Chapter 4: Sorting, Printing, and Summarizing Your Data Once in a while the simple things work right off. Phil Gallagher From the SAS-L Listserv, 1994. Reprinted by permission of the author. 4.1 Using SAS Procedures Using a procedure, or PROC, is like filling out a form. Someone else designed the form, and all you have to do is fill in the blanks and choose from a list of options. Each PROC has its own unique form with its own list of options. But while each procedure is unique, there are similarities too. This section discusses some of those similarities. All procedures have required statements, and most have optional statements. PROC PRINT, for example, requires only two words: PROC PRINT; However, by adding optional statements you could make this procedure a dozen lines or even longer. PROC Statement All procedures start with the keyword PROC followed by the name of the procedure, such as PRINT or CONTENTS. Options, if there are any, follow the procedure name. The DATA= option tells SAS which data set to use as input for that procedure. In this case, SAS will use a temporary SAS data set named BANANA: PROC CONTENTS DATA = banana; The DATA= option is, of course, optional. If you skip it, then SAS will use the most recently created data set, which is not necessarily the same as the most recently used. Sometimes it is easier to specify the data set you want than to figure out which data set SAS will use by default. To use a permanent SAS data set, issue a LIBNAME statement to set up a libref pointing to the location of your data set, and put the data sets two-level name in the DATA= option, as discussed in section 2.19, LIBNAME tropical c:\MySASLib; PROC CONTENTS DATA = tropical.banana; or refer to it directly by placing your operating environments name for the permanent SAS data set between quo