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Give me EVERYTHING! A macro to combine the CONTENTS procedure output and formats.

Lynn Mullins

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The PROC CONTENTS output displays SAS ® data set information such as variable name, type, length, informats, and format names. The values and codes for the formats are not included in this output; therefore, a separate printout of the program that creates the formats or a printout of the format catalog via DATA step programming needs to be used in conjunction with the PROC CONTENTS output. This paper will describe a SAS ® macro that combines PROC CONTENTS output with the format catalog data to create a single metadata dictionary file.

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The PROC CONTENTS output displays SAS ® data set information such as variable name, type, length, informats, and format names. The values and codes for the formats are not included in this output; therefore, a separate printout of the program that creates the formats or a printout of the format catalog via DATA step programming needs to be used in conjunction with the PROC CONTENTS output. This paper will describe a SAS ® macro that combines PROC CONTENTS output with the format catalog data to create a single metadata dictionary file.

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The PROC CONTENTS output displays SAS ® data set information such as variable name, type, length, informats, and format names. The values and codes for the formats are not included in this output; therefore, a separate printout of the program that creates the formats or a printout of the format catalog via DATA step programming needs to be used in conjunction with the PROC CONTENTS output. This paper will describe a SAS ® macro that combines PROC CONTENTS output with the format catalog data to create a single metadata dictionary file.

Key concepts: Computer science, Macro, File format, Data format, Metadata, Set (abstract data type), Information retrieval, Data file

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