do leave loop and continue !!!

There are two statements in SAS, leave and continue. Difference between two is seldom not understood.

data leave;
do i = 1 to 5;
do j = 1 to 5;
if j = 2 or j = 4 then leave;
output;
end;
end;
run;

Here SAS will leave inner do loop completely once the first condition j=2 gets satisfied. So in output you will never have j = 2 or 3 or 4 or 5.

OUTPUT
i j
1 1
2 1
3 1
4 1
5 1

Same program with continue statement.


data continue;
do i = 1 to 5;
do j = 1 to 5;
if j = 2 or j = 4 then continue;
output;
end;
end;
run;

Here SAS will skip the inner loop for both conditions j = 2 and j=4, but it will not completely leave the loop. So ouput for this will look like

i j
1 1
1 3
1 5
2 1
2 3
2 5
. .
. .
. .
5 3
5 5