The old-fashioned way of concatenating strings uses the operator “||”. This is still available, and still perfectly respectable.
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January, 2017
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The way Proc SORT orders data is not always ideal, from the programmer's point of view. However, the SORTSEQ option has some useful features which deserve to be more widely known.
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January, 2017
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There are at least two different approaches in SAS to listing the contents of a directory.
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January, 2017
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You can use the WORK library to contain more than just your temporary SAS data sets.
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January, 2017
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Translating your reports to a foreign language is easy using the File Localize feature in SAS Visual Analytics (available from version 7.1).
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January, 2017
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When archiving large SAS datasets, disk space can be an issue. One way to reduce the impact on disk space is to export the SAS dataset to a CSV and...
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January, 2017
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In SAS 9, you can use the IFC and IFN functions to evaluate an expression and return a value for the condition being true and another for it being false.
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January, 2017
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This tip highlights how simple it can be to read in multiple CSV files and output them as a single SAS Data Set utilising the FILENAME command and the PIPE...
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January, 2017
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SAS Visual Analytics is a very highly visual tool where graphical representation of data is commonly used. Although graphs are very powerful, sometimes having the detail is also important.
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January, 2017
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In SAS 9.4, you can use a FILENAME statement to read in files directly from a ZIP file.
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