Ken Beath, of Macquarie University, commented on an earlier entry that the best way to generate summary statistics is using proc report. While the best tools might differ, depending on the purpose, we wanted to share Ken’s code demonstrating how to re…
SAS Error Message with an Attitude
I may have giggled snorted bellowed with laughter when I saw this error message in my log today. NOTE: There were 0 observations read from the data set WORK.TEST. WHERE 0 /* an obviously FALSE WHERE clause */ ; NOTE: The data set WORK.TEST has 0 observations and 15 variables. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total […]
How to remove carriage return and linefeed characters within quoted strings.
HANDLING SPECIAL EMBEDDED CHARACTERS
To manage and report data in DBMS that contains very long text fields is not easy. This can be frustrating if the text field has special embedded symbols such as tabs, carriage returns (‘OD’x ), line feeds …
How to remove carriage return and linefeed characters within quoted strings.
HANDLING SPECIAL EMBEDDED CHARACTERS
To manage and report data in DBMS that contains very long text fields is not easy. This can be frustrating if the text field has special embedded symbols such as tabs, carriage returns (‘OD’x ), line feeds …
How to remove carriage return and linefeed characters within quoted strings.
HANDLING SPECIAL EMBEDDED CHARACTERS
To manage and report data in DBMS that contains very long text fields is not easy. This can be frustrating if the text field has special embedded symbols such as tabs, carriage returns (‘OD’x ), line feeds …
Revisiting the starting file location for Enterprise Guide
Years ago and a seemingly far galaxy away, I wrote about how to modify 9.1.3 to start Enterprise Guide users in a different location for the File folder. By default, the user only can access their personal SAS Temporary File. Why change this? I would p…