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Types of Functions OVERVIEW

Character Numeric Date and Time Macro State and Zip Code Special SAS Data set I/O External File I/O Variable Information


Changes and Enhancements OVERVIEW

In Release 9.2• Added 40+ new functions. • TRANSTRN removes or replaces all occurrences of a

substring in a character string Moved numerous SAS/ETS and Risk Dimensions functions into

Base SAS• INTFMT returns a recommended format, given a date, time,

or datetime interval Moved High Performance Forecasting functions into Base SAS

• HOLIDAY returns the date of the specified holiday for the specified year

Enhancements to numerous functions and CALL Routines


Changes and Enhancements OVERVIEW

In Release 9.3• Added new functions • MVALID checks the validity of a character string for use as

a SAS member name Enhancements to existing functions and CALL Routines SAS Documentation Change

• The SAS Language Reference: Dictionary is divided into 7 documents

• SAS Functions and CALL Routines: Reference


Length Assignment Rules Character Strings

Character variable lengths are set at Compile-time Context determines how lengths are set: Explicitly

INFORMATS on INFILE/INPUT LENGTH statement ATTRIB statement DBSTYPE= data set option (SAS/Access)

Implicitly On initial assignment Metadata exchange, e.g. default mappings with

SAS/Access


Comparisons Character Strings


Comparisons Character Strings


LENGTH & LENGTHC Character Strings


ANYxxx and NOTxxxFunctions Character Strings


SUBSTR and INPUT Functions Character Strings


SUBSTR (left of =) and PUT Functions Character Strings


CAT, CATS, and CATX Functions Character Strings


PUT and INPUT Functions Character Strings


SAS Macro Functions Character Strings


PERL Regular Expressions Character Strings


PROC FCMP User-defined Functions


SAS Date Time Processing

SAS Date values represent the number of days between January 1, 1960 and a specified date.

SAS Time values represent the number of seconds since midnight of the current day. SAS time values are between 0 and 86400.

SAS Datetime values represent the number of seconds between January 1, 1960 and an hour/minute/second within a specified date and time.

These values are stored as numbers and can be read with SAS informats and displayed with SAS formats


Date Informats SAS Date Processing


YEARCUTOFF Behavior SAS Date Processing


MDY, MONTH, DAY Functions SAS Date Processing


INTCK and TODAY Functions SAS Date Processing


INTNX Function SAS Date Processing for Finding First and Last of Month


INTNX Function SAS Date Processing for Finding First and Last of Month (Business Week)


INTNX Function Finding First and Last of Month for Business Week to Build a Format


PROC FMTLIB Validating Formats


INTNX Function Finding First and Last of Month for Business Week to Build a Format


Best Practices Ensuring Date Integrity

Store dates as SAS date values, not as simple numeric or characters

Explicitly set YEARCUTOFF= when using 2-digit SAS date values

2-digit years spanning more than 100 years must either use 4-digit years in the data, or handled with conditional logic

Ensure output data sets represent dates as SAS date values

Examine output closely to ensure formats and informatsare producing the intended results


An Introduction to SAS Character Functions (Including New SAS Functions), by Ron Cody

SAS Functions Old and New, by Ron Coleman, Internal SAS Presentation

SAS Date/Time Processing, by Cynthia Johnson, Internal SAS Presentation

SAS 9.3 Functions and CALL Routines: Reference at: support.sas.com

References

Documents

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