topic Re: INTCK and INTNX in SAS Programming

INTCK and INTNX

shivshankar — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:55:25 GMT

How to pronounce INTCK and INTNX function in SAS.

Re: INTCK and INTNX

Haikuo — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:25:15 GMT

Back to the school days, my instructor just spelled out the literal meaning: interval check , and interval next. I inherited that.

Re: INTCK and INTNX

RW9 — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:51:41 GMT

What an odd question? I tend to go with "Int" followed by C then K, or N then X. They aren't real words so don't have any pronunciation.

Re: INTCK and INTNX

data_null__ — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:20:51 GMT

I've heard INTCK pronounced IN-TICK, which at first I thought was referring to a function I did not know.

These are hard ones to pronounce so I don't try.

Re: INTCK and INTNX

Rick_SAS — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:57:18 GMT

Int-C-K (int-cee-kay) and Int-N-X (int-en-ex).

Re: INTCK and INTNX

SASKiwi — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 22:38:59 GMT

I say LIBNAME as in lib-erty, you say LIBNAME as in lib-rary - aren't accents wonderful!

Re: INTCK and INTNX

ChrisNZ — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:51:53 GMT

@SASKiwi don't you say lu-berty? 😉

Re: INTCK and INTNX

LinusH — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 06:57:31 GMT

And what about BLKSHPTPRC()?

Re: INTCK and INTNX

Rick_SAS — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:07:28 GMT

Now you're just being silly.

Obviously you can't pronounce every crazy mixture of consonancts, but I think the OPs question is valid and interesting.

I hear people talking about "ess-ay-ess software" (vs "sass") or using the "jay-em-pee product" (vs "jump"). Knowing how most people pronounce a string of characters is important, even if there is variation.

You say dah-ta, I say day-ta...

Re: INTCK and INTNX

SASKiwi — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:46:12 GMT

@ChrisNZ: probably! Maybe you say LEEBNAME or is that the Aussie version?!

Re: INTCK and INTNX

ChrisNZ — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 21:02:27 GMT

Both probably! 🙂