Diffrence Between RUN and QUIT statements
Folkes, Here is the answer from Andrew Karp..... Direct link ****************************************************************************************************; Allow me to weigh in on this topic. It comes up alot when I give SAS training classes. First, RUN and QUIT are both " explicit step boundaries " in the SAS Programming Language. PROC and DATA are "implied step boundaries." Example 1: Two explicit step boundaries. DATA NEW; SET OLD: C = A + B; RUN ; PROC PRINT DATA=NEW; RUN ; In this example, both the data and the proc steps are explicitly "ended" by their respective RUN statements. Example 2: No explicit step boundaries. DATA NEW; SET OLD; C = A + B; PROC PRINT DATA=NEW; In this example, the data step is implicitly terminated by the PROC statement. But, there is no step boundary for the PROC PRINT step/task, so it will not terminate unless/until the SAS supervisor "receives" a step boundary. Some PROCS support what is c...