Base SAS 9.1.3 Procedures Guide - Acsu Buffalo

The COMPARE Procedure 4 Program 255
Examples: COMPARE Procedure
Example 1: Producing a Complete Report of the Differences
Procedure features:
PROC COMPARE statement options
BASE=
PRINTALL
COMPARE=
Data sets:
PROCLIB.ONE, PROCLIB.TWO on page 224
This example shows the most complete report that PROC COMPARE produces as
procedure output.
Program
Declare the PROCLIB SAS data library.
libname proclib ’SAS-data-library’;
Set the SAS system options. The NODATE option suppresses the display of the date and time
in the output. PAGENO= specifies the starting page number. LINESIZE= specifies the output
line length, and PAGESIZE= specifies the number of lines on an output page.
options nodate pageno=1 linesize=80 pagesize=40;
Create a complete report of the differences between two data sets. BASE= and
COMPARE= specify the data sets to compare. PRINTALL prints a full report of the differences.
proc compare base=proclib.one compare=proclib.two printall;
title ’Comparing Two Data Sets: Full Report’;
run;