STAT 430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Text Editor, Semicolon, Sas Language
8 Aug 2018
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Like any other programming language, the sas language has its own rules of syntax to create the sas programs. The three components of any sas program - statements, Variables and data sets follow the below rules on syntax. Statements can start anywhere and end anywhere. A semicolon at the end of the last line marks the end of the statement. Many sas statements can be on the same line, with each statement ending with a semicolon. Space can be used to separate the components in a sas program statement. Every sas program must end with a run statement. Variables in sas represent a column in the sas data set. It must start with the letters a through z (not case sensitive) or an underscore (_). Can include numbers but not as the first character. The data statement marks the creation of a new sas data set. The rules for data set creation are as below.
