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Jedi SAS Tricks: Building a Name Suffix variable list

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 [...]

2 Popular SAS Topics, 2 Awesome SAS Instructors, a Pinnacle SAS Event

Michele Reister|March 2, 2011

SAS Global Forum creates a big buzz in the SAS user community, so in order to find out what the fuss is about, I decided to chat with a couple of our instructors who would be going to Las Vegas. In addition to teaching pre-conference training, these two instructors will [...]

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