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Hi, I have typed some text into a textbox in Microsoft Word. Then I think I messed with some text settings and as a result, my text is indented from the second line of each paragraph onward. Something like this: ---------------------- The text in my textbox ****begins here, ****however as you...

Hi, Simple question but I don't know what this is called so I haven't been able to find good results from the web. Does something like this work in a data step? where 0 < var < 6; That is to say, is it always equivalent to where var > 0 and var < 6; I've tested with a made-up dataset...

Hi, I have a dataset with a variable called description. A description may contain zero, one or many names matching names in a list called namelist. I'm trying to search description for these names and, when found, create new variables containing them called name1, name2, name3, etc. For the...

Hi all, I found a macro that appends one dataset to the bottom of another and keeps the greater variable length between the 2 sets of variables: http://support.sas.com/kb/33/407.html I'm trying to adapt this macro so that the macro accepts as many input dataset names as I give it and outputs...

As far as I know, the in operator and the colon operator modifier work splendidly before, during and after a datastep. What I mean is that the following three statements all work (albeit slightly differently): data test2; set test; where textnumber in:('1','2'); run; data test2; set test...

Hi all, I have 2 datasets: b is the main dataset, a contains the list of relevant unique personIDs that I want to pull data from b based on. In particular, I'm pulling the minimum date grouped by personID. I also want to restrict the minimum date for class "A" persons only and exclude missing...

Hi, I'm trying to create a macro that returns the number of months elapsed between two dates. The macro would be called in a datastep pulling in the dates from two variables and returning the months difference into a new variable. Here is what I have so far: ************************* %macro...