The Little SAS® Book: A Primer, Third Edition

Chapter 10. Debugging Your SAS^® Programs

	“Problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves.”
	--MARCY E. DAVIS

From The Official Explanations by Paul Dickson. Copyright 1980 by Delacorte Press. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

10.1	Writing SAS Programs That Work	252
10.2	Fixing Programs That Don’t Work	254
10.3	Searching for the Missing Semicolon	256
10.4	Note: INPUT Statement Reached Past the End of the Line	258
10.5	Note: Lost Card	260
10.6	Note: Invalid Data	262
10.7	Note: Missing Values Were Generated	264
10.8	Note: Numeric Values Have Been Converted to Character (or Vice Versa)	266
10.9	DATA Step Produces Wrong Results but No Error Message	268
10.10	The DATA Step Debugger	270
10.11	Error: Invalid Option, Error: The Option Is Not Recognized, or Error: ...