SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9, Third Edition

SAS Programs

You can use SAS programs to access, manage, analyze, or present your data. Let's begin by looking at a simple SAS program.

A Simple SAS Program

This program uses an existing SAS data set to create a new SAS data set containing a subset of the original data set. It then prints a listing of the new data set using PROC PRINT. A SAS data set is a data file that is formatted in a way that SAS can understand.

data sasuser.admit2;
   set sasuser.admit;
   where age>39;
run;
proc print data=sasuser.admit2;
run;

Let's see how this program works.

Components of SAS Programs

The sample SAS program contains two steps: a DATA step and a PROC step.

 data sasuser.admit2; set sasuser.admit; where age>39; run; proc print data=sasuser.admit2; ...