SAS 9.4 Language Reference, 6th Edition

custom 131

date and time 123

ISO 8601 compliant 131

multi-unit 128

multi-week 129

retail calendar intervals 131

shifted 130

INTNX function

interval boundaries and 127

invalid data 451

IPv6 779

address formats 780

addresses including a port number 780

addresses including a URL 781

examples of addresses 780

full and collapsed addresses 780

fully qualified domain names 781

IS MISSING operator 185

IS NULL operator 185

ISO 8601 131

iterative DO loops 569

processing selected array elements 569

J

Java objects 528, 544

accessing object fields 546

accessing object methods 547

arrays and 549

calling a simple method 553

CLASSPATH and Java options 544

creating a custom class loader 557

creating a user interface 553

declaring and instantiating 546

examples 553

exceptions 552

passing arguments 550

restrictions and requirements 546

standard output 553

type issues 547

Java type set 547

mapping to SAS data types 547

K

KEEP statement

I/O optimization and 199

keeping variables 53

examples 55

input or output data sets for 53

order of application 54

statements versus data set options 53

key summaries 534

key variables 651, 656

KEY= option

error checking and 522

MODIFY statement 667

SET statement 667

specifying indexes 667

keys

data pairs and 531

defining 530

non-unique 531

SAS registry and 223

L

labels 40

language elements 6

LAST.variable 460, 466

Latin TrueType fonts 286

LBOUND function 576

leading blanks

reading data containing 443

Learning SAS Programming 371

LENGTH statement

creating variables 43

I/O optimization and 199

LIBNAME catalog concatenation 705

LIBNAME statement

See also SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME

statement

associating librefs 588

clearing librefs 588

libraries 4, 585

accessing permanent files without libref

597

concatenation 590

configuring with SAS registry 233

defined by SAS 378

defining 587

engines and 747

file types 586

library directories 597

library engines 587

librefs 587

logical names 587

management tools 596

names 587

operating environment commands 598

permanent 592

physical names 587

remote access 589

SAS system libraries 593

sequential 596

sorting data sets in 381

temporary 592

utilities for 596

viewing with Explorer 378

library concatenation 590

definition 590

library members 591

830 Index