Later in the DATA step, when you want to process the variables in the array, you can refer to a variable by either its name or its array reference. For example, the names Reference and books{1} are ...
The ARRAY statement is similar to, but not the same as, the ARRAY statement in the SAS DATA step, and it is the same as the ARRAY statements in the NLIN, NLP, and MODEL procedures. The ARRAY statement ...