Semicolons and Comments¶
Semicolons¶
SAS uses ; to delimit the end of a line of code (this is similar to Java and C languages). This means you need to include a ; at the end of every line of code. This also means lines of code can span several lines (unlike Stata which requires a line break character ///).
Comments¶
SAS has two ways to create comments. You can start a comment with * and end it with ;
* This is a comment;
x = 10;
You can also create block comments with /* */
/* This is a
block comment */
x = 10;
Block comments can also be used inline
data out.outfile(drop = x /* This is an inline comment */);
set in.infile;
run;