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Using the IN operator in SAS Macro programming

October 8, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

This useful addition came in SAS 9.2 and I am amazed that it isn’t enabled by default. To do that you need to set the MINOPERATOR option unless someone has done it for you in the SAS AUTOEXEC or another [...]

Using Data Step to Create a Dataset Template from a Dataset in SAS

November 23, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

Recently, I wanted to make sure that some temporary datasets that were being created during data processing in a dataset creation program weren’t truncating values or differed from the variable lengths in the original. It was then that a brainwave [...]

A look at Emacs

August 10, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

It’s amazing what work can bring your way in terms of technology. For me, (GNU) Emacs Has proved to be such a thing recently. It may have been around since 1975, long before my adventures in computing ever started in [...]

ERROR: Invalid value for width specified – width out of range

June 8, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

This could be the beginning of a series on error messages from PROC SQL that may appear unclear to a programmer more familiar with Data Step. The cause of my getting the message that heads this posting is that there was a [...]

A few more SAS functions to know

January 22, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

There are whole pile of SAS functions for testing text strings that hadn’t come to my attention until this week. Until then, I’d have gone about using functions like INDEX and PRXMATCH functions for the same sort of ends but [...]