Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:49:00 -0600
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From: "Dunn, Toby" <Toby.Dunn@TEA.STATE.TX.US>
Subject: Re: New SAS books
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David,
I haven't really sat down and read through the little sas book, but from
skimming it it look pretty good, esspeccially the proc report and
tabulate since trying to remember everything about those two work horses
of reporting is rather hard to do.
I seem to find myself ingrossed in Art's book right now, most execellent
stuff, I know I will be better for reaing it. Last night I was amazed
at ron's book, what a great resource, I learned about a bunch of new
functions and how to use them that I never knew existed, I proprably
read through the online docs version of the function list atleast twice
a week or more.
Toby
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From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
David L. Cassell
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 12:35 PM
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Subject: Re: New SAS books
"Dunn, Toby" <Toby.Dunn@TEA.STATE.TX.US> wrote:
> Seems I won three new SAS books form the SCSUG conference:
>
> The Little SAS Book 3rd edt.
> SAS functions by Example
> and
> Carpenters Complete guide to the SAS macro language
>
> After skinning and reading parts of each all are excellent books.
Lots
> to learn.
I agree. Anything written by Art Carpenter or Ron Cody is worth
reading.
AND.. Ron's book has an entire chapter on Perl regular expressions
(pronounced 'regexen') and the PRX functions that use them.
Yes. Regexen. Learn to speak like a geek. If the plural of 'ox' is
'oxen', what do you expect for the plural of 'regex'? (If you read in
the Jargon File, you'll see that the 'jargon' plural of 'box' is 'boxen'
and the plural of 'Vax' is 'Vaxen', so OF COURSE the plural of regex
would be regexen! :-)
> Perhaps after the proc in a proc fiasco I soudl stik with The Little
SAS
> Book 3rd edt.
I'm sure Susan and Lora will be happy to hear that. :-)
Now that The Little SAS Book even introduces topics like macro
programming, PROC REPORT, and ODS, it's not quite so 'little' anymore.
I like it better than the earlier editions. But I may not be the target
audience, so take my recommendation with an appropriately-sized chunk of
salt.
David
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David Cassell, CSC
Cassell.David@epa.gov
Senior computing specialist
mathematical statistician
