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<title>(SAS) Dash (-) and Double Dash(--) concept in SAS - sarathannapareddy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ <p>In order to understand HASH and DOUBLE HASH concept in SAS you need to know about two different ranges of variables:

1) Numbered list:

When a set of variables have the same prefix, and the rest of the name is a consecutive set of numbers, we can use a single dash (-) to refer to an entire range. Some exs.. are….

VAR1 VAR2 VAR3 VAR4 VAR5

Shortcut list you can use to access all 5 variables is VAR1-VAR5

COL1 COL2 COL3 COL4 COL5 COL6 COL7

Shortcut list you can use to access all 7 variables is COL1-COL7</p> ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:09:40 GMT</pubDate>
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