Professional SAS Programmer's Pocket Reference

by Aster, Rick

• ISBN13: 9781891957123
• ISBN10: 1891957120
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-30
• Publisher: Breakfast Communications Corp

Table of Contents

The SAS Environment	5	(4)
Programming	9	(4)
Steps
Data Step Programming
Proc Step Programming
General Rules	13	(4)
Tokens and Spacing
Comments
Statements
Names
Character Encoding
Colors
Global Statements	17	(6)
Data Step Statements	23	(20)
Proc Step Statements	43	(2)
Expressions	45	(12)
Data Types
Variables
Constants
Operators
Character Sets
Arrays
Lengths of Character Expressions
Automatic Type Conversion
Missing Values
Macro Language	57	(10)
Macro Variables
Macro Statements
Macro Operators
Macro Functions
Macros
The Macro Processor
System Options	67	(24)
Files	91	(12)
Devices
File System Options
Filerefs
Libraries
Engines
Member Types
Entry Types
Special SAS Dataset Names
Views
Indexes and Integrity Constraints
Generation Datasets
Audit Files
Dataset Options
Passwords
ODS Drivers	103	(10)
Drivers
Style
Descriptive Statistics	113	(4)
Statistics Programming
Statistics
Display Manager	117	(12)
Windows
Commands
Informats	129	(8)
Character Informats
Numeric Informats
Time Informats
Formats	137	(10)
Character Formats
Numeric Formats
Time Formats
Functions	147	(36)
CALL Routines	183	(6)
Procedures	189	(52)
Products	241	(6)
SAS Words	247	(6)
Index	253