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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![CAS-Action! Simply Distinct - Part 2](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2021/06/Distinct-Ouput-to-CSV-702x336.jpg)
In my previous post CAS-Action! Simply Distinct - Part 1 I reviewed using the simple.distinct CAS action to explore distinct and missing values in a distributed CAS table. Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! - a series on fundamentals. I've broken the series into logical, consumable
![Fuzzy Matching](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2021/09/push_pins_WY3E9233-702x336.jpg)
The term "fuzzy matching" describes a method of comparing two strings that might have slight differences, such as misspelling or a middle initial in a name included or not included. One of my favorite functions to compare the "closeness" of two strings is the SPEDIS (spelling distance) function. Have you
![CAS-Action! Simply Distinct - Part 1](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2021/06/Distinct-702x336.jpg)
Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! - a series on fundamentals. I've broken the series into logical, consumable parts. If you'd like to start by learning a little more about what CAS Actions are, please see CAS Actions and Action Sets - a brief intro. Or
![Top Books for SAS Programmers](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2021/09/165186243-1-702x336.jpg)
The Day of the Programmer is not enough time to celebrate our favorite code-creators. That’s why at SAS, we celebrate an entire week with SAS Programmer Week! If you want to extend the fun and learning of SAS Programmer Week year-round, SAS Press is here to support you with books
![SAS Analytics Pro – now available for on-site or containerized cloud-native deployment – providing your entry point into SAS Viya](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2021/09/AnalyticsPro.png)
SAS Analytics Pro is an easy-to-use, yet powerful package for accessing, manipulating, analyzing and presenting information. It lets organizations improve productivity with all the tools and methods needed for desktop data analysis – in one package.
![Removing trailing characters from SAS strings](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2021/08/trimming-cant-to-can-600x336.jpg)
SAS' Leonid Batkhan shows how to cut away ANY unwanted trailing characters (not just blanks) from SAS text strings to clean up your data.