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Re: Development Processes of the Consummate SAS Developer #21 1 23 (1/31/2007 7:00:14 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas And I would add to this thread, I find that it is sometimes more important to find what the customer's ultimate goal is rather than to have them tell me what they want. Too often, someone has thought that they ... Nathaniel_Wooding

Re: PROC transpose: numeric and date formats 0 32 (1/30/2007 1:28:06 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas John This problem needs a two transpose statements, one to deal with the numbers and the other the dates -- or, you do a single transpose and then manipulate the new datra set. Here is a solution. Note that I... Nathaniel_Wooding

Re: Hidden characters? #11 0 21 (1/29/2007 10:52:12 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas But does Perl have a "search for" akin to '^'p where the caret stands for any non-printing character? I forget the exact syntax but that is the type of search capability in ISPF. ISPF can then be switched to ... Nathaniel_Wooding

Re: Hidden characters? 1 28 (1/29/2007 9:58:54 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Some text editors will allow one to search for non-printing characters and then display the hex value. Unfortunately, the only one that I have available at the moment is ISPF on the mainframe. I have dealt with... Nathaniel_Wooding

Re: %DS2CSV vs proc export 0 35 (1/29/2007 1:27:48 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas I like the CSV/ods route since it gives a header line but I have found it to be a bit slow, especially when compared to using put statements. Hence, my use varies with the size of the job and number of times th... Nathaniel_Wooding

Re: Number of Observations Read By MODIFY Statement #2 0 33 (1/28/2007 11:31:06 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Howard I just ran this with V8 and received the same answer. I'm reminded of one of Paul Dorfman's tricks in which he read large chunks of a SAS data set using peek but in this case they read the entire file a... Nathaniel_Wooding

Re: OT: Chance to Make SAS-L History: Did You Know That... #120 0 25 (1/26/2007 7:58:30 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas No, you can still see straight after using Proc Delete, unlike one's supposed condition after imbibing the early beverage. vbg Nat "William W. Viergever" ... Nathaniel_Wooding

Re: DDE causes SAS to crash #2 0 34 (1/26/2007 6:24:45 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas FWIW, while I have never managed to crash SAS when working with DDE and Excel, I did find a means of crashing it when reading Word tables. In my case, I was being sent word docs that were supposed to have multi... Nathaniel_Wooding

Re: OT: Chance to Make SAS-L History: Did You Know That... #116 0 20 (1/26/2007 4:27:52 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Art Thanks for looking it up. If nothing else, this thread may help someone in the future who finds some old code with a sortt and needs to find out what is going on. Nat Arthur Tabachneck ... Nathaniel_Wooding

Re: OT: Chance to Make SAS-L History: Did You Know That... #115 0 44 (1/26/2007 4:26:36 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Venky Not a problem -- I have never used a view!! Good point, though. Nat ----------------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This electronic message contains information which may be legall... Nathaniel_Wooding

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Using SCANOVER 4 43 (1/9/2007 1:33:25 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Suppose I have a really simple data step like this: data; infile datalines missover; input a b c; datalines; 1 2 ; run; which gives me the data set I want (with one observation, and the va... ajs2004 (204)

annotate where x axis is a date 4 36 (1/10/2007 8:31:05 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Greetings - I'm trying to figure out how to do a graph. I'm using proc gplot to plot cumulative enrollment into a study using the enrollment date (formatted as monyy5 within the gplot proc) to produce an X ax... debby (56)

Problem with PROC GPLOT for many people 3 33 (1/19/2007 5:47:38 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Hello, I'm trying to plot a Y vs. X for many different people, using PROC GPLOT. A sample code is below: goptions reset=global gunit=pct; proc goptions nolist footnote; run; proc gplot data=homedir.all_num... halper (24)

DDE causes SAS to crash 2 90 (1/22/2007 4:12:10 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Hello, I am heavy user of DDE for sending SAS output to Excel . Until now everything worked fine. I don't know why, but few days ago SAS tends to crash everytime i submit a DDE request of the form: Filename... aviben (86)

Reading Multiple Raw Files .. 2 42 (1/23/2007 9:55:02 AM) comp.soft-sys.sas Assuming that I have something like this ... filename in ('c:\Test.log', 'c:\Test2.log'); data output; infile in length=len; input record $varying1000. len; run; Is there anyway I can get to know the so... ravi_pune (49)

Finding a missing response #2 2 27 (1/23/2007 2:01:33 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Dear All, I am having two data sets namely visit1 and visit2 of 45 subjects. Mathematically speaking visit 1 should be a subset of Visit 2. Each subject has more than one information in visit1 and ... ramsathish (93)

Help with the data #4 2 38 (1/23/2007 4:19:22 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas I have following data data a; input id fld; cards; 1 123^238^765 2 100^268 3 234^345^379^876^789 4 287 5 398^123^345^654 I would like the following output 1 123 1 238 1 765 2 100 2 2... prasad_prabhud (24)

How to use Black only, and not color on hp color LaserJet 2550 PCL 6 2 31 (1/25/2007 7:24:51 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Is it possible to use the black ink only for printing photos and graphics instead of the usual color printout? If it is possible, how is it done? Thank you in advance for any help. ... jsm542 (1)

Number of Observations Read By MODIFY Statement 10 33 (1/28/2007 1:55:00 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Start with a table of 10 million rows data big; do key = 1e7 to 1 by -1; output; end; run; and a table of 3 rows data little; do key = 616, 61616, 6161616; output; end;... nospam1405 (4716)

Hidden characters? 7 36 (1/29/2007 9:26:01 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Hello, In the output of a proc tabulate, i get 2 different rows for the same class value, or as it looks as exactly the same value. I suppose that some hidde characters are the cause of the problem. Is ther... aviben (86)