SAS Programming Module 1

SAS Programming Module 1

How to run a program

Click on this little guy in the toolbar just above program

SAS is a program made up of steps

• Data Step- reads and processes data; creates data set

• Proc Step- processes data

SAS Syntax

• All steps begin with Data or Proc

• All steps end with run (usually) or quit

• All statements end with a ;

• Spacing and capitalization does not matter to compiler

Global Statements

• Do not need a run statement

• Libname statement

• Options statement

• Title statement

Comments

• Compiler does not read between /* and \

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