Transcription of SUGI 27: PROC FORMAT in Action - SAS
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Paper 56-27 PROC FORMAT in ActionJack N Shoemaker, ThotWave Technologies, Cary, NCABSTRACTThe PROC FORMAT subsystem provides an efficient and compactway to store all sorts of facts and data for data-driven paper will focus on PROC FORMAT in Action . That is,building user-defined formats from existing tables and using PROCFORMAT in conjunction with other SAS procedures likeSUMMARY, FREQ, TABULATE, REPORT, and PRINT. Sincethese other SAS procedures are FORMAT -aware, judicious use ofuser-defined formats can save hours of coding and result in morerobust, data-driven IS SAS ?That may seem like an odd question to pose to a group of SAS programmers and developers. But it is one that your author hasencountered frequently over the years. SAS is a programminglanguage, or set of programming languages depending upon howyou do the maths.
SAS® is a programming language, or set of programming languages depending upon how you do the maths. There is the ubiquitous base language with its data steps and procs. There is the macro language which bears close resemblance to the base language, but doesn’t follow quite all the same rules. There is the SAS® component language nee
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