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Dear Readers, If I’m not reading, I’m probably sleeping: blogs, newspapers, newsmagazines, Twitter posts and cereal boxes. So, I have a hard time limiting the number of articles that I put in the SAS Tech Report each month. One blog post that I couldn’t resist including is from a Twitter I follow called @rkoopmann. Richard Koopmann (his real name) is also a SAS user, SAS Tech Report subscriber and blogger.
Recently Koopmann posted an article about scraping on quatch, his blog. It intrigued me so I've included it. In his post, he grabbed internet data, in this case the SAS® Training catalog and schedules, and, using macros that he’s left on the blog for you to see, he was able to cycle through each course that had an available schedule. Scraping allows you to grab information from the internet and, using regular expressions, parse useful information from it.
Waynette Tubbs
Editor, SAS Tech Report
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SASware Ballot® Results »
The No. 1 idea that you had for improvement in SAS software and solutions was to “assign line numbers to code seen in a log generated by a macro in order to correlate with any LINE:COL messages given at the bottom of a DATA Step.” The votes were collected through mid-January and revealed at SAS Global Forum 2009. We’re always working to improve based on feedback from our customers and now we’ll use these survey results to make it even better.
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SAS® 9.2 Management Console »
This document (also available in PDF) helps you administer users and permissions in SAS Management Console. It explains key concepts and provides step-by-step instructions for selected tasks. It also includes a ‘Visual Reference’ that contains selected screenshots of the interface.
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Is this macro parameter blank? »
This paper reviews and compares various ways to implement a parameter check and then recommends one that performs well given various input parameter values.
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SAS® 9.2 Simplifies Process »
Beginning in SAS 9.2, the INDSNAME= option placed on the SET statement simplifies the process of obtaining the name of a data set being read with SET statement.
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Employment Opportunities »
If you haven’t noticed what’s going on at sasCommunity.org, now’s the time to take a look. One recent addition is the Employment Opportunities Page. Members can browse or post job listings. And there are more changes since the focus group discussions at SAS Global Forum 2009.
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Searching the Forums for Answers »
User discussion forums are a great way to find answers to your problems – both SAS-related and less technical. In early March, support.sas.com included discussion forum content in the overall site search. Read Renee Harper’s blog learn to search using the discussion forums’ content.
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SAS-L Award Presentations »
At SAS Global Forum 2009, SAS-Lers continued their 14-year tradition of honoring those who’ve contributed most significantly during the past year by awarding MSV and SASLROY certificates.
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Business Analytics for the CIO »
IT faces ever-increasing demands for intelligence across the organization. This white paper discusses some of the key infrastructure challenges and provides an overview of how the platform for SAS Business Analytics can help overcome those challenges.
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