/*___________________________________________________________________
  Ĥ MACRO:       GETNOBS                                            Ĥ
  Ĥ JOB:         Data Quality                                       Ĥ
  Ĥ PROGRAMMER:  Mahmoud Azimaee                                    Ĥ
  Ĥ DATE:        April 2011                                         Ĥ
  Ĥ DESCRIPTION: This macro returns Number of Observations in the   Ĥ 
  Ĥ              given dataset through the macro variable NO. It is Ĥ
  Ĥ              an intermediate macro and is used in many other    Ĥ                                                  Ĥ              DQ macros                                          Ĥ
  Ĥ PARAMETERS:  DS= Name of Dataset                                Ĥ	
  Ĥ EXAMPLE:     %GETNOBS (health.MHCPL_SPsection_19922010);        Ĥ	
  ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ*/


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%MACRO GETNOBS(DS) ;

%PUT ___________________________________________________________________;
%PUT Ĥ Manitoba Centre for Health policy (MCHP)                         Ĥ;
%PUT Ĥ MACRO:        GETNOBS                                            Ĥ;
%PUT Ĥ JOB:          Data Quality                                       Ĥ;
%PUT Ĥ PROGRAMMER:   Mahmoud Azimaee                                    Ĥ;
%PUT Ĥ DATE:         April 2011                                         Ĥ;
%PUT Ĥ Running for:  &DS;
%PUT ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ;

	%GLOBAL NO;
	%LET NO=;
	data _null_;
	if 0 then set &DS nobs=nobs;
		call symput('NO',nobs);
		stop;
		run;
%MEND GETNOBS;