Date:         Mon, 29 May 2006 04:43:47 -0400
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: Creating a variable 'Count'

in a DATA step you have the automatic variable _n_ with a kind of
observation counter. This varioable is not stored in the dataset, but you
can assign it to a variable which is:

counter = _n_;




On Mon, 29 May 2006 04:11:34 -0400, Ankur Shanker
<ankur.shanker@EVALUESERVE.COM> wrote:

>Hi SAS users,
>
>My request will seem to be pretty simple but bear with me as I have only
>recently started using SAS.
>
>Anyways, i want to create a variable 'count', which will hold the count of
>the number of observations in the data set. Say, i have another
>variable 'sessionid' and i want to count all those observations
>sequentially (in another variable count) until the data reaches the end
>i.e. sessionid becomes blank or missing.
>
>I hope I have made the problem amply clear.
>
>Thanks and bye
>
>Ankur Shanker
>Business Analyst