Learning SAS by Example

Index

A

ABS function  167–168

absolute column pointers  374

ACROSS variables  254–255

advanced INPUT techniques

about  359

creating multiple observations  372–373

detecting ends of files  364–365

handling missing values  360–361

informat lists  373–374

problems  375–376

reading data conditionally  369–371

reading data from multiple files using FILENAME statement  366

reading external filenames from data files  366–367

reading external files  363

reading multiple lines of data  367–369

reading portions of raw data files  365

reading short data lines  362–363

trailing @ sign  373

using relative column pointers  374

variable lists  373–374

alignment parameter  133

ALL keyword  303–304

ampersand (&)  38, 425–426

analysis variables, combining with ...