Examples (EXECUTE command)

DATA LIST  FILE=RAWDATA / 1 LNAME 1-13 (A) FNAME 15-24 (A)
  MMAIDENL 40-55.
VAR LABELS  MMAIDENL 'MOTHER''S MAIDEN NAME'.
DO IF (MMAIDENL EQ 'Smith').
WRITE OUTFILE=SMITHS/LNAME FNAME.
END IF.
EXECUTE.

• This example writes the last and first names of all people whose mother’s maiden name was Smith to the data file SMITHS.
• DO IF-END IF and WRITE do not read data and are executed only when data are read for a procedure. Because there is no procedure in this session, EXECUTE is used to read the data and execute all of the preceding transformation commands. Otherwise, the commands would not be executed.