Which statement describes a characteristic of the SAS automatic variable_ERROR_? A. The _ERROR_ variable maintains a count of the number of data errors in aDATA step.
B. The _ERROR_ variable is added to the program data vector and becomespart of the data set being created.C. The _ERROR_ variable can be used in expressions in the DATA step.
D. The _ERROR_ variable contains the number of the observation that causedthe data error.
Answer: C
请问大家ABD都错在哪里了?
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_ERROR_
is 0 by default but is set to 1 whenever an error is encountered, such as an input data error, a conversion error, or a math error, as in division by 0 or a floating point overflow. You can use the value of this variable to help locate errors in data records and to print an error message to the SAS log.
For example, either of the two following statements writes to the SAS log, during each iteration of the DATA step, the contents of an input record in which an input error is encountered:
if _error_=1 then put _infile_;
if _error_ then put _infile_;
Since _error_ is an automatic variable, it wont be part of output ot the data set. Therefore B is false.
Automatic variables are created automatically by the DATA step or by DATA step statements. These variables are added to the program data vector but are not output to the data set being created. The values of automatic variables are retained from one iteration of the DATA step to the next, rather than set to missing.