DATASOURCE Procedure

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The RANGE statement is used to control the time range of observations included in the output data set. Figure 2 shows an example extracting the foreign exchange rates from September 1985 to February 1987. You can use the following statements:

/*-- Controlling the Time Range of Data - The RANGE Statement --*/
filename citifile "%sysget(DATASRC_DATA)citiaf.dat" RECFM=F LRECL=80;
proc datasource filetype=dribasic infile=citifile
                interval=month  out=dataset;
   keep  exrjan exrsw exruk;
   range from 1985:9 to 1987:2;
run;

title1 'Printout of the OUT= Data Set';
proc print data=dataset;
run;