In the example dataset – SASHELP.HEART, you want to create a new variable – Activity_status and assign one of three values of (‘High’, ‘MEDIUM’, ‘LOW’), at random to each observation. You can achieve these using 2 methods. Method 1: Using an array data heart(drop=id _1-_3 keep=status sex bp_status chol_status activity_status); set sashelp.heart(obs=10); array _{3} $… (0 comment)

This program will change the case for all of the character variables in a SAS data set. The key here is using the  _CHARACTER_ keyword in the ARRAY statement. This will create an array of all the character variables in the dataset. Once the array is created, you can apply any character functions on all… (0 comment)

Removing dashes and parentheses from phone numbers is one of the common data cleaning activities. This program uses the compress function to remove unwanted characters from a phone number. data phone_number; input Phone $ 1-20; Phone_number=compress(Phone, , 'kd'); datalines; (908)235-4490 (201) 555-77 99 ; title 'Removing dashes and parentheses from phone numbers'; proc print data=phone_number;… (0 comment)