Welcome to Exampler;

What is it?

• An Example Site for Data Science professionals and Developers that use SAS
• Presently a SAS Example and Reference Site;
• SAS stands for Statistical Analytical Software and is an enterprise language with a suite of other interconnected tools
• SAS is used by more than 80,000 companies; More specifically, companies that have a Data Science Department
• This site has a series of simple SAS examples (hopefully other langugaes too... eventually)
• SAS has more than 450 commands, however this site will focus on SAS CAS functions (initially)

Syntax:

• Explain(This is where I provide the syntax of a SAS Function);

Exampler Statement:

 Layout of a Typical Example :

Data work.my_data_file;     Variable_Name_1 = name_of_function(Parameters);     Variable_Name_2 = name_of_function(Parameters); Run;

What's happening in the script above?

• This section is where I provide an extra instruction on what's happening in the script above
• For Example, Line 1 is telling SAS we would like to create a temporary table for a DATA Step called work.my_data_file
• Line 2 and 3 are assigning "Variable_Name_1" and "Variable_Name_2" values once they've been computed by the "name_of_function" function.
• Line 4 is the run command;
• The entire layout loosely resembles a SQL code block or in SAS's case a Proc SQL code block (more on this later)
• Below is where I show the example results

Example Output:

Variable	Input	Output	Description
Variable_Name_1	name_of_function(Parameters);	the value of Variable_Name_1 after the function ran	A breif description
Variable_Name_2	name_of_function(Parameters);	the value of Variable_Name_2 after the function run	see above

See also; PUT Function

See also; TODAY Function

See also; Hour Function