SAS

Stored Compiled Data Step Program REDIRECT INPUT.
I want to write a stored compliled program and when the REDIRECT INPUT statement is used when the program is called, I want to be able to determine the name used in the REDIRECT statement. Like a function perhaps newname = REDIRECTEDINPUT(oldname); Here is example of using redirected input. I want to know th... 27 Jan 2010 11:28

How to read a large odd looking file
One of our posters sent me their data file (all 8 gig of it) and, frankly, I'm totally lost trying to figure out how to read it. The following is a dump of the first 272 characters in the hope that it might trigger someone's stroke of brilliance: 00000000 00 05 54 00 00 54 71 00 06 53 23 76 FA C0 4F 00 00000... 27 Jan 2010 11:28

how to caluculate time between two different hours?
Hi To all, I have data like Sleep varible is sleeping time at night 10:00pm,8:00 pm so on.... wake varaible is wakeup at MORNING 6 AM,6:15 am so on...... they are in charcter format. SLEEP WAKE 10 6 8 5.45 10 6.31 10 6 9.15 6.15 8.30 6 10 6 10 6 9 6 I want out... 27 Jan 2010 05:56

SAS Transport file character field limitation and PROC CPORT.
On Jan 26, 6:32 pm, brian_c_wall...(a)YAHOO.COM (Brian Wallace) wrote: Sorry I haven't been able to post recently.  The security at work is pretty strict.  I have a simple, I guess stupid, question. I always thought the maximum length for a character field in a SAS transport file was 200 characters.  Is this a corr... 27 Jan 2010 05:56

sas data xport problem
Hi Everyone, I am trying to convert a current sas data file to the xpt format, which I can work with R. However, I tried many times with some modifications on the code, without any success. The error message I am getting is: *" ERROR: The variable name accession_no is illegal for the version 6 file OUT.OUTDATA.... 26 Jan 2010 21:13

problems selecting subst
Trish, The way I see these done is using Proc Format, then output a data set that is long rather than wide; which you can then deal with: proc format; value $diags '171'-'17199', '172'-'17299'='Disease' other='Other'; run; data diags; set z.namc94; informat diagnosis $3... 27 Jan 2010 10:21

Interesting finding: Proc SQL create quoted name dataset!
Thanks Art, You are right, I was aware of the full path for dataset, just failed to link my "finding" with to it, since there is no "path" in my quote. Like you said, it is indeed created in my default folder when the "path" is omitted. Ya -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Tabachneck [mailto:art297@N... 27 Jan 2010 13:44

problems selecting subst
The data are numeric: Hi All, I am having some problems selecting a substring of data, and I was hoping someone might have some insight on the problem. I am trying to select ICD-9 codes. My code works successfully in other datasets, but I am not able to select my observations in the below dataset and I am no... 26 Jan 2010 20:05

Interesting finding: Proc SQL create quoted name dataset!
Hi there, I'm quite surprised so see that proc sql accepts quoted name as table name, we can even reference the quoted named dataset in other proc: 1 proc sql; 2 create table "quotednm" as 3 select * 4 from sashelp.class 5 ; NOTE: Table quotednm created, with 19 rows and 5 columns. 6 NOT... 26 Jan 2010 20:05

SASUSER.TEMPLAT
why does SASUSER in the SAS explorer not show TEMPLAT. Thanks, Masoud ... 26 Jan 2010 17:47