VARIABLES Subcommand (LIST command)

VARIABLES specifies the variables to be listed.

• The variables must already exist, and they cannot be scratch or system variables.
• If VARIABLES is used, only the specified variables are listed.
• Variables are listed in the order in which they are named on VARIABLES.
• If a variable is named more than once, it is listed more than once.
• The keyword ALL (the default) can be used to request all variables. ALL can also be used with a variable list (see example below).

ALL. List all user-defined variables. Variables are listed in the order in which they appear in the active dataset. This is the default if VARIABLES is omitted.

Example

LIST VARIABLES=V15 V31 ALL.

• VARIABLES is used to list values for V15 and V31 before all other variables. The keyword ALL then lists all variables, including V15 and V31, in the order in which they appear in the active dataset. Values for V15 and V31 are therefore listed twice.