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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Q5

The following SAS program is submitted:

proc datasets lib = sasuser;
contents data = class varnum;
quit;

Which one of the following is the purpose of the VARNUM option?

A. to print a list of variable names
B. to print the total number of variables
C. to print a list of the variables in alphabetic order
D. to print a list of the variables in the order they were created

8 comments:

SASGuru said...

Answer: D

Print a list of the variables by their position in the data set. By default, the CONTENTS statement lists the variables alphabetical

Rujuta........ said...

D. to print a list of the variables in the order they were created

siva said...

Answer D

Ryan Lo said...

Answer is D.

The VARNUM option produces a list of variable names in the order in which they were defined, which is their logical position in the data set. By default, the CONTENTS statement lists variables alphabetically.

kat said...

do you not have to type proc before contents?

kinnari said...

Answer D
Varnum represents variable name in the order they were created

Unknown said...

D

tanmay said...

kk

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