SAS(R) Programming 3: Advanced Techniques

Target group

Course structure

Getting Started

• Setting up for this course.
• DATA step review.

Using Advanced Functions

• Using a variety of advanced functions.
• Performing pattern matching with Perl regular expressions.

Defining and Processing Arrays

• Defining and referencing one-dimensional arrays.
• Doing more with one-dimensional arrays.
• Defining and referencing two-dimensional arrays.

Defining and Processing Hash Objects

• Declaring hash objects.
• Defining hash objects.
• Finding key values in a hash object.
• Writing a hash object to a table.
• Using hash iterator objects.

Using Utility Procedures

• Creating picture formats with the FORMAT procedure.
• Creating functions with the FCMP procedure.