Learning SAS by example : a programmer's guide / Ron Cody.

Includes index.

What is SAS? -- Writing your first SAS program -- Reading raw data from external files -- Creating permanent SAS data sets -- Creating labels and formats -- Reading and writing data from an Excel spreadsheet -- Performing conditional processing -- Performing iterative processing : looping -- Working with dates -- Subsetting and combining SAS data sets -- Working with numeric functions -- Working with character functions -- Working with arrays -- Displaying your data -- Creating customized reports -- Summarizing your data -- Counting frequencies -- Creating tabular reports -- Introducing the Output Delivery System -- Creating charts and graphs -- Using advanced INPUT techniques -- Using advanced features of user-defined formats and informats -- Restructuring the SAS data sets -- Working with multiple observations per subject -- Introducing the SAS Macro Language -- Introducing the Structured Query Language -- Introducing Perl Regular Expressions.