SAS' Leonid Batkhan shows you how to delete a substring from a character string - one of the common character data manipulation tasks.

Deleting a substring from a SAS string was published on SAS Users.

A previous article describes how to use the SGPANEL procedure to visualize subgroups of data. It focuses on using headers to display information about each graph. In the example, the data are time series for the price of several stocks, and the headers include...
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Amber Elam of SAS Technical Support reveals common challenges and solutions when you convert external files into SAS data sets.

Turning external files into SAS® data sets: common problems and their solutions was published on SAS Users.

Many characteristics of a graph are determined by the underlying data at run time. A familiar example is when you use colors to indicate different groups in the data. If the data have three groups, you see three colors. If the data have four...
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SAS' Leonid Batkhan demonstrates a common character data manipulation task of inserting a substring into a character string.

Inserting a substring into a SAS string was published on SAS Users.

I've previously written about how to generate all pairwise interactions for a regression model in SAS. For a model that contains continuous effects, the easiest way is to use the EFFECT statement in PROC GLMSELECT to generate second-degree "polynomial effects." However, a SAS programmer...
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One of the first things I learned in SAS was how to use PROC PRINT to display parts of a data set. I usually do not need to see all the data, so my favorite way to use PROC PRINT is to use the...
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Look at the following matrices. Do you notice anything that these matrices have in common? If you noticed that the rows of each matrix are arithmetic progressions, good for you. For each row, there is a constant difference (also called the "increment") between adjacent...
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