Date:         Mon, 7 May 2001 14:55:47 -0700
Reply-To:     Brian Vuong <brian-vuong@USA.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Brian Vuong <brian-vuong@USA.NET>
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
Subject:      Randomly pick

Dear SAS users:
Please help me with random generator.  After I ran codes listed below to
randomly pick 5000 records.  I later found that in those 5000 records
consists of duplicates.  Please show me to randomly pick 5000 records
without duplicates.


data select;
do i=1 to 400;
j= (ranuni(0)*total);
set auditing.recaudit point=j nobs=total;
output;
end ;
stop;
run;


Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Brian Vuong