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What is the difference between Count, Count C and Count W?

Let us see with example a difference between Count, Count C and Count W in SAS: DATA ds; text = 'we are learning SAS function lik...
How to check for the existence of a variable in SAS?

If you want to check if a variable exists in a dataset or not, you can simply use the below macros which uses open and varnum function, to...
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Excel Goal Seek in SAS

In Excel you have the function "Goal Seek". It is a nice function that allows you to "search" for a value for a input ...
Create a progress bar in SAS

Progress bars are fairly easy to implement in SAS/AF however a little harder from base SAS. You can however produce progress bars for use ...
Varnum option in Proc contents

Generally when you create a sas dataset by using proc contents on a sas dataset, the output data set is sorted in ascending order by name ...
Extract the first letter of the character variable

Have you ever needed to create a variable which is the first letter of the character variable? In the below example there are four ways to...
Examples of SAS's programmer friendliness

Truncated character comparisons The relational expression in if ( 'AB' = 'ABC' ) evaluates to False, since the shorte...
How to retrieve the first character of a variable in SAS

If you need to create a variable which has only first character of the character variable, then there are 4 different ways with which you c...
How to create a PDF ﬁle of a SAS job

For creating a PDF file of a SAS job or SAS procedure, we need to bracket the section of code for which you want to create tables or/and g...

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