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Easy Inserting/Appending Libraries into FMTSEARCH path lists in SAS 9.2

In SAS 9.1.3 and prior, Options list (such as FMTSEARCH for libraries with format catalogs, and SASAUTOS for paths that contain macros shared across jobs) were annoying to work with. If you have nested code that wants to add a library or a path the list, doing so like this could potentially clobber statements executed [...]

Removing formats from all variables in a SAS Dataset

In SAS, every field/variable in a table/dataset can be given a format. This format tells SAS how to display the data. The following datastep will create a table called “formatted” having 1 row containing 3 variables: x, y, and d.
data formatted;
x=9000;
y=42;
now=16761;
format x comma6.;
format y dollar5.;
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