Inserting a substring into a SAS string
SAS' Leonid Batkhan demonstrates a common character data manipulation task of inserting a substring into a character string.
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Leonid Batkhan is a long-time SAS consultant and blogger. Currently, he is a Lead Applications Developer at F.N.B. Corporation. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Automatic Control Systems and has been a SAS user for more than 25 years. From 1995 to 2021 he worked as a Data Management and Business Intelligence consultant at SAS Institute. During his career, Leonid has successfully implemented dozens of SAS applications and projects in various industries. All posts by Leonid Batkhan >>>
Game on! Here's a fun way to learn SAS
SAS' Leonid Batkhan encourages you to join him at SASensei, an independent, third-party online SAS learning resource (game).
Running SAS programs in parallel using SAS/CONNECT®
SAS' Leonid Batkhan demonstrates a popular "divide-and-conquer" efficiency strategy using SAS/Connect®.
Removing repeated characters in SAS strings
SAS' Leonid Batkhan explains the data cleansing task of removing unwanted repeated characters in SAS character variables.
Using Microsoft Excel functions in SAS
SAS' Leonid Batkhan summarizes a lesser known but useful feature in SAS that allows you to bring Microsoft Excel functions into your SAS programs.
How to unquote SAS character variable values
SAS' Leonid Batkhan reviews SAS functionality related to the character strings quoting/unquoting, then dives deep into unquoting SAS character variables.
Expanding lengths of all character variables in SAS data sets
SAS' Leonid Batkhan reveals how to change lengths for all character variables in a data set and all data sets in a data library to facilitate data migration to Unicode encoding environment.
Splitting a data set into smaller data sets
SAS' Leonid Batkhan shows you how to split a large data set into many by a subsetting by a number of observations to produce smaller, better manageable data sets.
Multi-purpose macro function for getting information about data sets
SAS' Leonid Batkhan describes programming technique for creating multi-purpose SAS® Macro functions.
How to create and use SAS macro functions
SAS' Leonid Batkhan differentiates between SAS macro and programming languages, defines two types of SAS macros and much more.