Date:         Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:50:31 CST
Reply-To:     Jack_Hamilton@HCCOMPARE.COM
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jack Hamilton <Jack_Hamilton@HCCOMPARE.COM>
Subject:      Re: Proc Contents - Postion option
Comments: To: "Cates, Randall C" <rccates@MKG.COM>

"Cates, Randall C" <rccates@MKG.COM> wrote:
Date:    10/10/96 8:33 AM
 
> When I do a Proc Contents of a large dataset, I usually want to see the
>vars in the order that I created them, which is Not alphabetic.  So I
>specify the Position option for Proc Contents.  The annoying part is that I
>always have to edit the output to delete the alphabetic list before I can
>print it out.  Anybody know of a switch in Proc Contents (or anywhere else)
>that would allow me to not output the Alphabetic list?  In other words,
>just the first information (name, address, size of d'set, etc.), and the
>Position list?
 
This doesn't answer your question, because it doesn't provide dataset-level
information, but some of what you want could be gotten with:
 
 proc sql;
 
  select name, type, length, npos, varnum, label, format,
         informat, idxusage
  from   sashelp.vcolumn
  where  libname = 'SASUSER' and
         memname = 'AGENTS'
  order  by varnum;