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Dear David,
It works for me! Not sure what you tested or how but you can/should be
able to have the SET statement before the IF .
see my log -
38 data a3; delete; run;
NOTE: The data set WORK.A3 has 0 observations and 0 variables.
NOTE: DATA statement used:
real time 0.01 seconds
cpu time 0.01 seconds
39
40 DATA _NULL_;
41 SET A3 NOBS=HOWMANY;
42 IF HOWMANY = 0 THEN DO;
43 %put 'no records to process';
'no records to process'
44 END;
45 RUN;
NOTE: There were 0 observations read from the data set WORK.A3.
NOTE: DATA statement used:
real time 0.03 seconds
cpu time 0.01 seconds
Regards,
Charles Patridge
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