The CONTENTS Procedure

Syntax: CONTENTS Procedure

Restriction:	You cannot use the WHERE option to affect the output because PROC CONTENTS does not process any observations.
Tip:
Tip:	You can use the ATTRIB, FORMAT, and LABEL statements.
Tip:	You can use data set options with the DATA=, OUT=, and OUT2= options.
Tip:	Complete documentation for the CONTENTS statement and the CONTENTS procedure is in CONTENTS Statement.
See:	CONTENTS Procedure under Windows UNIX z/OS OpenVMS
Table of Contents:	The CONTENTS Procedure

PROC CONTENTS <option-1 <...option-n>>;

Note:

The links in the following table are to the DATASETS procedure documentation, which explains these options. [cautionend]

Task		Option
List the contents of one or more SAS data sets and print the directory of the SAS library		PROC CONTENTS
Print centiles information for indexed variables		CENTILES
Specify the input data set		DATA=
Include information in the output about the number of observations, number of variables, number of indexes, and data set labels		DETAILS\|NODETAILS
Print a list of the SAS files in the SAS library		DIRECTORY
Print the length of a variable's informat or format		FMTLEN
Restrict processing to one or more types of SAS files		MEMTYPE=
Suppress the printing of individual files		NODS
Suppress the printing of the output		NOPRINT
Print a list of variables in various order		ORDER=
Specify the name for an output data set		OUT=
Specify the name of an output data set to contain information about indexes and integrity constraints		OUT2=
Print abbreviated output		SHORT
Print a list of the variables by their position in the data set. By default, the CONTENTS statement lists the variables alphabetically.		VARNUM

Note:

The ORDER= option does not affect the order of the OUT= and OUT2= data sets. [cautionend]