Pia Rønnevik
Customer Success Manager, SAS
About the webinar
This webinar highlights some of the most powerful techniques available to SAS programmers. Learn how advanced functions simplify data manipulation, how Perl Regular Expressions (PRX) unlock flexible pattern matching, and how arrays enable fast, elegant handling of repetitive tasks.
With practical examples throughout, you’ll see how to use these techniques to write code that is not just functional, but smarter, faster, and easier to maintain.
What you'll learn
- Use advanced SAS functions to streamline data manipulation
- Apply PRX (regex) for flexible and powerful pattern matching
- Leverage arrays to simplify repetitive processing
- Practical tips to make your programs cleaner, faster, and easier to maintain
About our expert
With extensive experience across analytics, statistics, and user engagement, Pia Rønnveik currently serves as User Engagement Manager at SAS, where she leads the Norwegian SAS FANS Users Group. She facilitates network meetings, plans technical content and delivers presentations for FANS.
Before joining SAS, Pia worked at NHO (Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise), contributing to national wage statistics and analyses for the Technical Calculation Committee (including inputs to the NOU reports (Official Norwegian Reports)). She also spent nearly a decade at Statistics Norway (SSB), focusing on the Consumer Price Index, large-scale data challenges, and the development of the harmonized CPI for Norway. Earlier in her career, Pia worked with scanner data methodology at ACNielsen and conducted research projects at the Norwegian National Insurance Administration.
