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SAS Topics
Programming

These pages contain links from all parts of our web site and others web sites on SAS programming.  The topics will vary from introductory to advanced.

• SAS Seminars
  • Using Arrays in SAS with movies
  • Introduction to SAS Macro Language with movies
  • SAS Output Delivery System
• SAS Frequently Asked Questions
  • How can I change the way variables are displayed in proc freq? 
  • How can I direct the output from PC SAS to a file?  
  • How can I get information to debug my SAS macro?
  • How can I put a value from a data file to a macro variable?
  • How can I create tables using proc tabulate?
  • How can I bootstrap estimates in SAS?
• SAS Library
  • Good Programming Practices
    • Bulletproofing Your SAS Results by Vanessa Hayden, courtesy of NESUG 
    • Clean-up, Comments and Code – Making it Maintainable by Clay and Lori Martin, courtesy of NESUG 
    • SAS Program Efficiency for Beginners by Bruce Gilsen, courtesy of NESUG 
    • Coding for Posterity by Rick Aster, courtesy of NESUG
  • ODS
    • ODS, YES! Odious, NO! – An Introduction to the SAS Output Delivery System by Lara Bryant, Sally Muller & Ray Pass, courtesy of NESUG 
    • ODS for Data Analysis: Output As-You-Like-It in Version 7 by Christopher R. Olinger and Randall D. Tobias, from SUGI Proceedings, 1998, courtesy of SAS.
    • Making the SAS Output Delivery System (ODS) work for you by William Fehlner, from SUGI Proceedings, 1999, courtesy of SAS.
    • Twisty Little Passages All Alike, Output Delivery System (ODS) Templates Exposed by Chris Olinger, from SUGI Proceedings, 1999, courtesy of SAS.
  • SAS Macros
    • Getting Started with Macros by Ian Whitlock, courtesy of NESUG
    • Moving from Macro Variables to Macros by Lisa Sanbonmatsu, courtesy of NESUG
    • Macros from Beginning to Mend A Simple and Practical Approach to the SAS Macro Facility by Michael G. Sadof, courtesy of NESUG
    • An Introduction to Macro Variables and Macro Programs by Mike S. Zdeb, courtesy of NESUG
    • Creating Macro Variables via PROC SQL by Mike S. Zdeb, courtesy of NESUG
    • More About “INTO:Host-Variable” in PROC SQL: Examples by John Q. Zhang, courtesy of NESUG
    • Macro Quoting Functions, Other Special Character Masking Tools, and How To Use Them by Arthur L. Carpenter, courtesy of NESUG
    • Secrets of Macro Quoting Functions – How and Why by Susan O’Connor, courtesy of NESUG
    • &&&, ;;, and Other Hieroglyphics Advanced Macro Topics by Chris Yindra, C. Y., courtesy of NESUG
    • Generate a dataset with a given correlation/covariance structure
  • Other
    • Debugging 101 by Peter Knapp, courtesy of NESUG
    • Those Missing Values in Questionnaires by John R. Gerlach and Cindy Garra, courtesy of NESUG
    • Avoiding Mayhem in the New Millennium: Working with Missing Data by JoAnn Matthews, courtesy of NESUG
    • Simplifying Complex Character Comparisons by Using the IN Operator and the Colon (:) Operator Modifier by Paul Grant, courtesy of NESUG
    • Arrays: In and Out and All About by Marge Scerbo, courtesy of NESUG
    • Complex Arrays Made Simple by Mary McDonald, PaineWebber Incorporated, courtesy of NESUG 
    • You Could Look It Up: An Introduction to SASHELP Dictionary Views by Michael Davis, courtesy of NESUG 
    • The 'SKIP' Statement by Paul Grant, courtesy of NESUG
    • Indexing and Compressing SAS Data Sets: How, Why, and Why Not Andrew H. Karp, courtesy of NESUG