Professional SAS Programming Shortcuts

Programmers working in SAS can use this practical handbook to sharpen their skills across several areas. It walks through handling character strings, coded values, numeric data, and dates, and shows how to track down bugs in code. Readers also learn methods for parsing and analyzing text and documents, along with techniques for building interactive applications.

Rather than leaving readers to hunt for answers, the book pinpoints the programming problems that come up most often and then presents a solution for each one. This second edition is updated for SAS 9, with particular attention to the changes in how the software processes text.