Hi: EG is NOT SAS. You are not programming in SAS, you are using Enterprise Guide as a front end interface/editor in order to write SAS code and then submit the code from EG to SAS on the server. Someplace on your system, the SAS application's executable is resident -- just waiting for jobs/programs to come for processing. There are many different interfaces to SAS -- the newest is SAS Studio, the oldest is SAS Display Manager for Windows. I have written programs one line at a time and submitted them from a TSO (mainframe) command line. I have used an ISPF editor to write SAS code. I've used VI (ick) on Unix to write SAS code and then submit it via a command line. SAS code is SAS code, no matter what interface you use. Enterprise Guide writes SAS code with every point and click choice you make. Enterprise Guide also adds some extra "protection" code around the code it generates in order to keep you from doing something undesirable (like accidentally deleting your data). But if you want to learn about the SAS code that EG is generating and if you want to learn how to change that code effectively and correctly, then take the free Programming 1 course. We have instructions in that course for how to make the data for any of the most current interfaces: SAS on Windows; SAS Enterprise Guide; SAS Studio via SAS University Edition; SAS Studio via SAS OnDemand for Academics. No matter which front end interface you use, the SAS code you learn in Programming 1 will work in Enterprise Guide. You do have to use file names that are appropriate for your file system and method of using SAS. (For example, on SAS for Windows, you might be able to refer to your SASUSER library as a storage location, but sometimes EG folks or University Edition folks don't have write access to SASUSER on a server. But 95-99% of the code you learn in Programming 1 will be the same no matter what interface you use to write the code. The statements you most often have to change are: INFILE, FILE, LIBNAME, FILENAME and FILE= options. Plus there are a few commands that you can't use typically in EG, like the X command. Here's the location where you can see the free training: https://support.sas.com/edu/elearning.html?ctry=us&productType=library Programming 1 is on the list. Hope this helps, Cynthia
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