Date:         Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:15:38 -0500
Reply-To:     Mary <mlhoward@avalon.net>
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From:         Mary <mlhoward@AVALON.NET>
Subject:      Re: data questions
Comments: To: "jingtailan@gmail.com" <jingtailan@GMAIL.COM>
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Actually, none of these looks like real-world problems; in an array, you would usually assign a variable list

array arraylist{*} var1--var1000;
and thus the parameters would be a list of variables

In a sum you would have a list of arguments
sum(var1,var2,var3);
and usually each argument would be a different variable

and in a do loop you would usually go from one value to another value, such as
do i=1 to dim(arraylist);

So it does look like your questions are not particulaly relevant to any real-world problems.   Who is making up the questions? Why!!!!

-Mary
answers: 1. the first value in your array, 2. the last argument in the sum function, 3.  the upper end to the loop.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jingtailan@gmail.com 
  To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
  Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 2:03 PM
  Subject: data questions


  all:

  I have 3 questions:

  1. array    _[1000000]    8;
  question: what is 8 mean?



  2. sum=sum(of _numeric_, 5000);

  question: what is 5000 mean?


  3. do i=1 to le6;


  question: what is le6 mean?

  Thanks.

  Jingtailan