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how to read character value without using substr function in sas ?

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How to get part of string form the source string without using sub string function in SAS?

3 7944

We have a string like this "kannafromsalembut" ,from this i want to get only "fromsal" (but one condition with out using substring function)here we can not use scan because in the given string there is no delimeter? so give ans without out using substring ?

5 8514

What are the difficulties u faced while doing vital signs table or dataset?

2448

What happens in the following code, if u type 8 instead of *? proc sql noprint; create table abc as select 8 from lib.abc; quit;

3 6562

You need to create an In List that it is to be later used in a Where Clause that includes all the Regions that begin with the letter A from the sashelp.shoes table. Using PROC SQL with an into clause create the following string from the sashelp.shoes table using the variable region “AFRICA”,”ASIA”,…..

3 6800

What is LOGICAL VARIABLES in SAS.And how it can be used..Can anyone support..???

3 12417

You need to perform an analysis on a massive dataset by groups, but are unable to sort the data due to memory constraint. How would you accomplish the task?

2 5652

Please write codes to merge two datasets and keep every record in the first dataset.

1 4883

When merging 2 datasets with a common variable (not merge key), how to keep both?

3 7170

Write a SAS macro to calculate number of numbers in an email address

2 6536

Write SAS codes to compare two datasets. Suppose the allowable difference is 0.1.

2 7322

The below code we are using for creating more than one macro variables in proc sql using into clause. How we can use same code to create macro variables vara, varb, varc instead of var1, var2, var3.? proc sql noprint; select count(distinct(patient)) into :var1 - :var3 from dataset1 group by trtreg1c ; quit;

Accenture,

1 5777

What is proc sql pass through facility?

L&T,

4 9925

How to import multiple xls files into sas. Out of those files, how to get different values from a single variable and how to find number of rows per value type? We can do this using group by for one xls file with proc sql. Was wondering how I can achieve this for multiple files at the same time. Any ideas?

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