The formats are used in the SAS (statistical analysis system) to determine how variable values to be displayed or written as output. There are plenty of built-in formats available in SAS such as date9., w10., comma10.2, MMDDYYw., etc. It is also allowed to create your own user-defined formats in SAS. You can set your own … Read more
The SAS picture formats are a kind of template which is being used to display data in a particular format. For example phone numbers written with space after each digits and country code, commas and dashes in the digits, etc. Similarly you can picture format dates, big amounts with spaces and commas, currency sign, and … Read more
The formats in SAS are a very underrated feature among the SAS programmers. Especially when it comes to user defined formats. It has been seen that people happily use join or complex look-up logic but don’t want to create user defined formats. This is probably because not everyone is aware of the real power of … Read more
You have already learned how to create user defined formats in SAS using the proc format procedure. This article is an extended version of that comprehensive guide. In this article you’ll learn how to create user defined formats using the proc format procedure in the permanent SAS library. SAS formats created in the WORK library … Read more
Changing the dataset names or creating backup of existing data sets are kind of basic tasks you do as a developer. It’s often used when you do investigation on finding data errors or making changes in the existing solutions. SAS has different ways to rename the variables and its labels but here in this article … Read more
In this article we have seen 3 different ways to rename a sas dataset but they aren’t efficient when it comes to bulk renaming SAS Data sets. Here you’ll learn how you can rename all the SAS datasets from a library ones for all without creating multiple copies of datasets. It means without making data … Read more
The PROC MEANS procedure summarises data in descriptive statistics for variables across all the observations as well as within the groups of observations. You can compute statistics like calculating mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum values, and many more statistical calculations. For example, PROC MEANS does the following: calculates descriptive statistics estimates quantiles, which includes … Read more
This is a very common use case where we need to write code to check if a substring is present on a character variable in SAS. That substring can be a character string, a character, or any special character. Depending on the outcomes you can perform your specific operations. You can achieve this by using … Read more
The FIND function in SAS searches for a specific substring in a given string or character variable and returns the position of its first occurrence. The FIND function is mostly used where any specific character, keyword, or phrase you want to identify, and/or extract. It is especially helpful when you read raw, scattered, and long … Read more
In this article we have already seen how you can convert char variable to numeric and numeric variable to character variable. When it comes to DATE in SAS, it’s a bit different because SAS has its own date format and informats. You can use the INPUT() function to convert a character date to a numeric … Read more