description 808
opening 808
Editor window
See Program Editor
editors
See also NOTEPAD window
See also Program Editor
See also SAS text editor
customizing 806
EDOPT command 808
ELSE statement
description 165
selecting observations 151
embedded blanks 58
in column input 58
in list input 64
embedded special characters, reading
See informats
END command 763
END statement
description 223
DO groups 217
iterative DO loops 220
TEMPLATE procedure 672, 682
END= option
description 212, 362
determining last observation 203, 359
ENDSAS command
description 750
ending interactive line mode 748
ending SAS sessions 746
ENDSAS statement
description 750
ending SAS sessions 746
ENTER command
DATA step debugger 828
equal sign (=)
defining summary table labels 491
drawing lines with 522
error diagnosis
See debugging
See debugging, with SAS Supervisor
error messages, suppressing logging of
383, 384
error processing 400
See also debugging
See also debugging, with SAS
Supervisor
error types 401
errors
diagnosing 402
diagnosing and avoiding 399
processing 400
types of 401
ERRORS= option
description 388
suppressing error messages 383, 384
EXAMINE command
DATA step debugger 829
exclamation points (!!), concatenation
operator 139
EXCLUDE statement
copying SAS data sets 731
description 736
moving SAS data sets 733
execution-time errors
definition 401
EXOPTS command 808
EXPFIND command
description 790
finding files 771
EXPLORER command
description 750
opening Explorer window 755
Explorer Options window
description 808
opening 808
Explorer window 744
See also SAS Windowing Environment,
windows
definition 744
finding files 770
opening 755
Explorer window, customizing 802
Contents Only view versus Explorer
view 803
Contents view 804
editing options 806
file types, enabling display of 805
file types, hiding 806
folders, adding and removing 805
fonts 806
icon size 804
pop-up menu actions, adding 805
expressions
DATA step debugger and 417
external files 46
assigning filerefs to 46
creating SAS data sets 44, 45
specifying as input 45, 46
external files, output to
See also ODS
traditional output 8
F
fields (raw data) 29
FILE command 396
storing Log window 396
storing Output window 396
storing Program Editor 780
file contents, listing 707
Index 867
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