Jedi SAS Tricks – Roll Your Own Function

Mark Jordan
Mark Jordan|May 3, 2012

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 server logs, and to make future calculations and comparisons easier, he wanted to transform the value to local datetime.  The INTNX() function worked great, but [...]

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Jedi SAS Tricks: Building a Name Suffix variable list

Mark Jordan
Mark Jordan|November 18, 2011

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 programmers.”  One of the things I love about best about SAS programming is the plethora of functions and shortcuts built into the language, all designed [...]

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Jedi SAS Tricks: Custom Bookmarks

Mark Jordan
Mark Jordan|November 19, 2010

I was building a nice little PDF report the other day.  I love the way ODS PDF replicates the SAS Results window navigation structure as PDF bookmarks, but… I’d much rather write the text for the bookmarks myself.  So, I decided to "use the SAS" and make ODS do my [...]

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