Mark Jordan
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Mark Jordan is an instructor and course developer at SAS Institute. He grew up in northeast Brazil, retired from the US Navy submarine force in 1994, and has been a SAS programmer ever since. After a nomadic life, Mark seems to have finally settled in Cary, NC with his wife Lori, and their two cats, Tiger Man and Tango.

Recent Posts

Jedi SAS Tricks: FUNC(y) Formats

Mark Jordan|May 10, 20121022094
In the previous episode, we built our own custom SAS function - a masterful trick indeed. Gordon Keener, a developer here at SAS, responded exuberantly ... Read More

Jedi SAS Tricks – Roll Your Own Function

Mark Jordan|May 3, 2012166611
A SAS user (who lives in the the US) emailed me a question about SAS functions. He was reading UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) datetime values from ... Read More

Jedi SAS Tricks: Some Experience Required

Mark Jordan|February 28, 201220169
As a Master Chief in US Navy submarines, one of my favorite sayings was “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.” ... Read More

Jedi SAS Tricks: These aren't the droids... Episode 2

Mark Jordan|February 18, 201213760
We started out in Episode 1 cleaning and standardizing data from the Academy.  As you recall, Mr. Vader apparently had a attitude when making his entry ... Read More

Jedi SAS Tricks: These aren't the droids... Episode 1

Mark Jordan|January 13, 2012419713
How the power of the Force makes ridding yourself of problematic characters so much easier! I recently was invited to become an alternate instructor for ... Read More

Jedi SAS Tricks: Building a Name Suffix variable list

Mark Jordan|November 18, 2011746518
If you’ve taken one of my SAS classes you may recall “Mark’s 3 rules of programming”, the first of which is “Lazy programmers are GOOD ... Read More

Jedi SAS Tricks: Free SAS Training (if you're quick)

Mark Jordan|October 10, 201113492
*** UPDATE 10/11/11: All available seats for the test teach are full, enrollment is closed. The response was awesome - thank you! *** You may be ... Read More

Jedi SAS Tricks: Macro Q functions

Mark Jordan|May 16, 20118430
James Bond: “Give me the old fashioned target range, Quartermaster. “ Q: “Yes, well, it's called the future, so get used to it.” ... Read More

Jedi SAS Tricks: Email from the Front – Part 2

Mark Jordan|February 15, 201114052
In my last blog post, I discussed how to use SAS options to send unattended email using an SMTP server. In this segment, I’ll ... Read More

Jedi SAS Tricks: Email from the Front - Part 1

Mark Jordan|February 7, 201134856
I’m responsible for a SAS program that runs nightly in batch on a Linux server here at SAS. I am also a road warrior, and routine ... Read More