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

List of Programs

Chapter 1

Program 1.1:    Converting character values to numeric values

Program 1.2:    Presenting a macro to perform character-to-numeric conversion

Program 1.3:    Testing the character-to-numeric conversion macro

Program 1.4:    Converting a specific value such as 999 to a missing value for all numeric variables in a SAS data set

Program 1.5:    Converting a specific value such as ‘NA’ to a missing value for all character variables in a SAS data set

Program 1.6:    Changing case for all character variables in a SAS data set

Program 1.7:    Reading data values that contain units

Program 1.8:    Using a Perl regular expression to extract the digit and units part of a character value

Chapter 2

Program 2.1:    Using IF-THEN-ELSE ...