Yes. I did not mean to imply that these options were intended for anything other than SAS listing output ... View more

Those are valid options in SAS. I typed my response in the reply box, so I am confused. I wasn't referring to ODS. Thanks, ... View more

do a proc univariate to look at your data. univariate gives you the 5 lower and upper extreme values of the variable income. if there are any negative values, they will show up. this is a good way to look at abnormalities for continuous variables ... View more

It looked to me like it was an invalid SAS name. start date. Needs to be start_date ... View more

options linesize=132 ps=10000 nocenter orientation=landscape; ... View more

start date is seen as 2 sas variables. start_date is a valid variable name ... View more

there is no point.  you can do a one to one match where there are no identical identifiers.  junk data ... View more

there is a lower (and upper) function in SAS data step and non-passthrough SQL. pass-through uses upcase and lowcase ... View more

can you create first dataset if first.id and rest dataset else if not first.id. merge those two data sets by id if diff(any of the dates) is <= 1) ... View more

you are really only selecting from first dataset if account_no on is in both data sets (inner join) and date criteria is met ... View more

this can happen if you already formatted your date once ... View more