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SAS: sashelp.vcolumn

sashelp.vcolumn contains the information about variable (columns) in a data set.
So, this view can be used to determine the colums in a data set.
sashelp.vcolumn selects the values from dictionary.columns

Columns

 1  libname        char     8  Library Name
 2  memname        char    32  Member Name
 3  memtype        char     8  Member Type
 4  name           char    32  Column Name
 5  type           char     4  Column Type
 6  length         num      8  Column Length
 7  npos           num      8  Column Position
 8  varnum         num      8  Column Number in Table
 9  label          char   256  Column Label
10  format         char    49  Column Format
11  informat       char    49  Column Informat
12  idxusage       char     9  Column Index Type
13  sortedby       num      8  Order in Key Sequence
14  xtype          char    12  Extended Type
15  notnull        char     3  Not NULL?
16  precision      num      8  Precision
17  scale          num      8  Scale
18  transcode      char     3  Transcoded?
Github repository about-SAS, path: /programming/libraries/SASHELP/views/columns/vcolumn

See also

sashelp views

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