SAS Programming for Enterprise Guide Users, Second Edition

Chapter 2. Understanding Coding with SAS Enterprise Guide

• Introduction 14

• The Structure of a SAS Program 14

  • Writing Your Own Code: The Program Node 14

  • Using and Customizing the Program Window 20

  • The Program Node in Process Flow Diagrams 24

• Understanding Generated Code 26

• Complementing the Generated Code 29

  • Adding Code When a Server Is Used for the First Time 30

  • Adding Code before or after a Task or Code 31

  • Inserting Code into a Task 32

  • Using Generated Code as a Template 35

• Summary 36

• Exercises 36

Introduction

In this chapter we look at the basic structure and building blocks of a SAS program and show how to write your own program that fits within a SAS Enterprise Guide process flow.

We then look at the code that SAS Enterprise Guide generates and show how you ...