Purrfectly Fabulous Feline Functions

Explore the fabulous feline functions and calls available in SAS® 9.1 and later. Using CAT functions and CAT CALLs gives you an easier way to streamline your SAS code and facilitate concatenation of character strings. So, leave verbose coding, myriad functions, and the vertical bar concatenation operators behind! SAS® 9.2 (and beyond) enhancements will also be demonstrated.

Order Order! Four Ways to Reorder Your Variables, Ranked by Elegance and Efficiency

SAS practitioners are frequently required to present variables in an output data file in a particular order, or standards may require variables in a production data file to be in a particular order. This paper and presentation offer several methods for reordering variables in a data file, encompassing both DATA step and procedural methods. Relative efficiency and elegance of the solutions will be discussed.

About the Presenter

Louise Hadden supports analytics and data management for the Department of Health and Environment at Abt Associates Inc. as a Lead Programmer Analyst. She specializes in reporting and visualization and loves a good SAS reporting challenge. She is also the girl with the SAS(r) tattoo.