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Re: Slightly OT: Graphic of Unemployment in the United States #23 0 44 (12/3/2009 12:37:28 AM) comp.soft-sys.sas Dale - I liked the original graph in this thread too. The change over time is the point and it's well made IMHO. It needs population density caveats is all. The cartography approach is too complicated for sim... pchoate

Re: Scan function #5 0 52 (12/2/2009 4:51:32 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Hi Chris - Since it looks like you have quoted text following a numeric value, you can use the location of the first quote as a breaking point. data test; infile cards; input ; var1=input(substr(_infile_,1,i... pchoate

Re: Slightly OT: Graphic of Unemployment in the United States #13 0 40 (12/2/2009 4:36:06 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Haven't read the whole thread, so pardon if this was mentioned .... This is similar to the red vs. blue election maps - population cartograms are much better at proportionally representing geographic based inf... pchoate

Re: SAS/Connect not able to logoff mainframe under RACF #5 0 43 (11/4/2009 5:20:23 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Hey Bob - Try sending your signoff locally - it exists on the PC, not zOS filename rlink 'c:\Miller\tcptsoRACF1.txt'; signon chilpar3; rsubmit; filename counts 't.miller.sasdata'; data racfdata; infile counts... pchoate

Re: SAS/Connect not able to logoff mainframe under RACF #3 0 44 (11/4/2009 4:53:08 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Bob - We use the same sort of MVS TCP connect and send data up and down daily. How are you downloading your data? A Proc Download run over your connect in zOS SAS? Or do you open your MVS libraries from the... pchoate

Re: SAS Stops Reading Before End of File...Why? #4 0 43 (9/28/2009 6:33:32 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Kevin - a nice little free utility to look for DosEOF type gotchas is HexMad. http://download.cnet.com/HexMad/3000-2094_4-10068622.html SN-003632 When reading a binary file as text, the SAS System stops rea... pchoate

Re: help on data step #6 0 40 (8/12/2009 7:59:55 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas OliveSecret - You could use the reverse function and a truncated comparison... Data GroupA GroupB GroupC...; Set dataset; if reverse(code) =: 'A' then output GroupA; else if reverse(code) =: 'B' th... pchoate

Re: who has allocated a zOS library? #6 0 46 (7/22/2009 6:25:57 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Thanks all for the tidbits - this is news to me. Paul Choate DDS Data Extraction (916) 654-2160 -----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Raithel ... pchoate

ot: please ignore #2 0 32 (7/22/2009 4:41:59 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas test =20 ... pchoate

Re: Where Clause Problem #7 0 53 (6/30/2009 6:12:54 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas For a list of character values I like to use the index function to test for the value out of a string: proc print data=sample; where year eq 1991 and index('ABCD',x); run; INDEX runs very quickly and is easy ... pchoate

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Trying to Delete SPDS datafiles 3 56 (12/14/2006 4:16:42 AM) comp.soft-sys.sas Hi, I have a Library named ABC which has a SPDS datafile. I tried to delete the entire SPDS file using the following code. Proc datasets library = ABC kill; Run; I do not see any file's in the library... VORAM (49)

proc freq #12 4 52 (12/14/2006 7:03:23 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Hi, I am running proc freq on all the variables (more than 100 variables) so I am not using Tables statement as follows: proc freq data=A; run; As I am not using Tables statement I don't know how to output d... raan67 (117)

OT: RIP Al Shugart 1 39 (12/14/2006 7:35:47 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2072401,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL121406EO... william1027 (166)

customised endsas; 11 50 (12/18/2006 10:47:27 AM) comp.soft-sys.sas Hi I want to implement customised endsas. Let me explain. lets say while updating a dataset I wana check a variable amount to be always greater then zero. and I want the program to stop if its less than 0. A ... mohit.b.bhatia (45)

A Index or sorting Question - VERY URGENT 3 29 (7/28/2008 6:37:32 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas I have the following dataset: Subject VarA VarB VarC vard 10001 samsu 02 05 18 10001 hope 08 06 18 10001 may 05 09 10 10002 copa... need_sas_help (102)

A SCAN Function question - VERY URGENT 1 46 (8/6/2008 6:10:01 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas I have a dataset containing varaible SED (numeric variable) NAD (character variable) as below: SED NAD --- --- 1006 LKS 1007 PQR 1009 LCR 1006 NRA 1506 RCA another dataset containin... need_sas_help (102)

< label: > procedure statement. 7 27 (8/28/2008 1:35:36 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Some procedures like REG support label: statements. For REG MODEL, MTEST and TEST statements have documented LABEL support. These labels show up in various places in the output to help identify the statements... iebupdte (1746)

Best way to dedupe a character string 11 35 (9/16/2008 9:17:58 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas What is the best way to dedupe a character string stored in a datastep variable? Here is how I would like to call it, using the imaginary function %Dedupe: data Work.NeedToDedupe; length Letters $ 100; Le... walker.627 (147)

A big flat file is not fitting into a disk. How to work with it? 7 36 (9/27/2009 4:53:12 AM) comp.soft-sys.sas Hi All, My boss asked me for the answer and the code for the next question. Can you please help? I copied his question completely. I don't have any idea how to do it and I used SAS on a mainframe (UNIX) only o... teryoshinat (8)

Scan function 6 190 (12/2/2009 1:33:47 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas I am trying to use SCAN to split a text field with data like 11 "In particular senior consultants who do not like the "new" medical course" into 2 variables var1 11 var2 In particular senior consul... christine