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(SAS) Create new folder with simple checks - rambles

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:57:32 UTC

(SAS) Text to SAS Variable Name - rambles

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:10:02 UTC

Useful functions to ensure (99% of the time...) that a piece of text can be used to name a SAS variable. NOTE: This won't work with SAS literals.

(SAS) Simple hash lookup - rambles

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:21:14 UTC

Simple, basic syntax for SAS lookup

(SAS) Summary datasets using hashes - rambles

Fri, 27 May 2011 19:45:20 UTC

This snippet comes directly from Paul M. Dorfman's paper on programming with Hash objects. The hash object is useful when summarising huge datasets that aren't sorted and indexed by the variable(s) to be summarised; they can often be quicker than proc summary and are certainly less machine intensive.

(SAS) Output list of files and folders to a dataset - rambles

Thu, 26 May 2011 20:02:18 UTC

This simple, straightforward method should work on multiple platforms (other methods involving OS specific commands and pipes are less flexible).