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SAS Certified Professional Prep Guide
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SAS Certified Professional Prep Guide

by SAS Institute
October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
430 pages
19h 4m
English
SAS Institute
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Chapter 14: Using Advanced Functions

  1. Correct answer: a
    The FIND function searches for a specific substring of characters within a character string. When the FIND function finds a substring, FIND returns the value of 1. When the substring is not found, FIND returns the value of 0.
  2. Correct answer: b
    The COUNT function counts the number of times CANADA appeared within the Text string. The COUNTW function counts the number of words in the Text string. A default list of delimiters is used when there are no delimiters specified.
  3. Correct answer: c
    The LAG function retrieves the previous value of a numeric or character column. You can use multiple LAG functions within a program. Answer c correctly assigns the variables and uses the LAG ...
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