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Grace Whiteis
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SAS Principal Technical Support Analyst

Grace Whiteis is a Technical Support Analyst in the Foundation SAS group. She provides support for SAS Studio. She also provides support for macro, DATA step and Base procedures, with an emphasis on hash, arrays and merge. Grace has SAS Certifications in Base Programming for SAS 9, Advanced Programming for SAS 9, and SAS 9 Platform Administration.

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SAS arrays—be not afraid!

Arrays are a powerful SAS programming tool. They can be used to simplify coding for repetitive calculations, to transpose data and to evaluate variables in a non-sequential manner. Sometimes users are intimidated by the term array, but in SAS, an array is simply a grouping of variables that lasts for