Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them

Chapter 4: Combining and Updating SAS Data Sets

Introduction

Task: Concatenating two SAS data sets—Using a SET statement

Task: Concatenating two SAS data sets—Using PROC APPEND

Task: Concatenating two SAS data sets with character variables of different lengths

Task: Concatenating two SAS data sets that contain character variables of different lengths and controlling the length of the character variables

Task: Developing a macro to concatenate two SAS data sets that contain character variables of different lengths

Task: Updating a SAS data set using a transaction data set

Task: Using a MODIFY statement to update a master file from a transaction file

Task: Updating several variables using a transaction file created with an INPUT method called ...