Professional SAS Programmer’s Pocket Reference
Author: Rick Aster
Publisher: Breakfast
A compact reference book for SAS programmers, this book covers the features of the SAS language with syntax and descriptions, with examples of some of the most important or potentially confusing features. It includes key host-specific features, with indications of which releases and operating systems support each feature. It is logically organized to let you look things up quickly as you write or read SAS programs. The book starts with a very brief introduction to SAS programming.
Editions
5 Paperback (2004–SAS 9.1)
5 Paperback
Year: 2004
ISBN: 1-891957-12-0
Pages: 256
Publisher’s list price: 18.00
Contents
- 1. The SAS Environment
- 2. Programming
Steps/Data step programming/Proc step programming - 3. General Rules
Tokens and spacing/Comments/Statements/Names/Character encoding/Colors - 4. Global Statements
- 5. Data Step Statements
- 6. Proc Step Statements
- 7. Expressions
Data types/Variables/Constants/Operators/Character sets/Arrays/Lengths of character expressions/Automatic type conversion/Missing values/Component Objects - 8. Macro Language
Macro variables/Macro statements/Macro operators/Macro functions/Macros/The macro processor - 9. System Options
- 10. Files
Devices/File system options/Filerefs/Libraries/Engines/Member types/Entry types/Special SAS dataset names/Views/Indexes and integrity constraints/Generation datasets/Audit files/Dataset options/Passwords - 11. ODS Drivers
Drivers/Style - 12. Descriptive Statistics
Statistics programming/Statistics - 13. Display Manager
Windows/Commands - 14. Informats
Character informats/Numeric informats/Time informats - 15. Formats
Character formats/Numeric formats/Time formats - 16. Functions
- 17. CALL Routines
- 18. Procedures
- 19. Products
- SAS Words
- Index
From the back cover
Quick answers about SAS
For more than a decade, SAS users from beginners to experienced professionals have counted on Professional SAS Programmer’s Pocket Reference as their source for authoritative information about SAS. The new 5th edition is extensively revised, expanded, and redesigned to provide the information SAS users need today.
SAS is the solution of choice for businesses and researchers looking for answers in their data — and this reliable guide provides the quick answers you need to write programs that take advantage of SAS’s many features. It’s so easy to find the information you need about syntax, routines, options, and more, Professional SAS Programmer’s Pocket Reference will soon be the one book you use every time you write a SAS program.
A noted SAS expert, Rick Aster is the author of several books on SAS including the popular Professional SAS Programming Shortcuts. He works as a consultant, instructor, and developer.
