_existvar.sas File Reference

determines whether a certain variable, optionally of a certain type, exists in a SAS dataset More...

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Detailed Description

determines whether a certain variable, optionally of a certain type, exists in a SAS dataset

%_existVar (dataset, variable, type)

Version

$Revision: 315 $

Author

$Author: klandwich $

Date

$Date: 2014-02-28 10:25:18 +0100 (Fr, 28 Feb 2014) $

See Also

For further information please refer to SASUnit User's Guide

$HeadURL: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/sasunit/code/trunk/saspgm/sasunit/_existvar.sas $

Copyright

Copyright 2010, 2012 HMS Analytical Software GmbH. This file is part of SASUnit, the Unit testing framework for SAS(R) programs. For terms of usage under the GPL license see included file readme.txt or https://sourceforge.net/p/sasunit/wiki/readme.v1.2/.

Parameters

i_data	input dataset
i_var	name of the variable
i_vartype	type of variable (N for numeric or C for character or empty for don't care)

Returns

1 .. variable existst, 0 ... variable does not existst

Definition in file _existvar.sas.