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Category: SAS Programming

A collection of tips from the analytics experts to help you get the most from your platform. Browse through them all or choose from the categories below:

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Sorting Variable Names Alphabetically

How to change the order of variables within a dataset is one of the most frequently asked questions in the SAS world. Read more...

Posted in SAS Programming; Tagged SAS Programming; Posted February, 2017 by Amadeus Technical Team

The Versatile Colon

5 for the price of 1! The colon has several uses in SAS, all of them worth knowing about. Read more...

Posted in SAS Programming; Tagged SAS Programming; Posted February, 2017 by Amadeus Technical Team

How Will The Interest Change Affect Your Mortgage Payment?

The media is full of interest rate changes at the moment, leading to lots of questions – will it go down? What does this mean for my savings? How will... Read more...

Posted in SAS Programming; Tagged SAS Programming; Posted February, 2017 by Amadeus Technical Team

The Monotonic() Function

The DATA step environment has an internal counter that takes the form of an automatic variable named _N_. Read more...

Posted in SAS Programming; Tagged SAS Programming, Monotonic() Function; Posted February, 2017 by Amadeus Technical Team

Including an Existing Format Within a Format Definition

When defining a format, you can include an existing format as part of the definition, as shown in the following example. Read more...

Posted in SAS Programming; Tagged SAS Programming; Posted February, 2017 by Amadeus Technical Team

Handling Case with an Informat

The UPCASE function is often used to compare variables against a value in a consistent case or convert existing data to upper case. Read more...

Posted in SAS Programming; Tagged SAS Programming, Informat; Posted February, 2017 by Amadeus Technical Team

Displaying Absent Combinations of Classification Variables with Proc SUMMARY

Proc SUMMARY with the NWAY option will produce a summary of a dataset based on all the combinations of the CLASS variables found in the data. Read more...

Posted in SAS Programming; Tagged SAS Programming, Proc SUMMARY; Posted February, 2017 by Amadeus Technical Team

Working with Dictionary Tables

Principal Consultant Elena Muriel describes the use of SAS Dictionary tables within the Proc SQL procedure and the DATA step environment. Read more...

Posted in SAS Programming; Tagged Proc SQL, SAS Dictionary Tables, SAS Programming; Posted February, 2017 by Amadeus Technical Team

How Do I Build a Format from a Dataset?

A very efficient way of defining Formats and Informats is to use an Input Control Data Set with Proc Format, rather than writing VALUE or INVALUE statements. Read more...

Posted in SAS Programming; Tagged SAS Programming; Posted February, 2017 by Amadeus Technical Team

The Length Statement and Character Variables

Suppose we run the following code, PRODGRP being a new variable not present in SASHELP.SHOES: Read more...

Posted in SAS Programming; Tagged SAS Programming; Posted February, 2017 by Amadeus Technical Team

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