Cody’s Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them presents often-used programming tasks that readers can either use as presented or modify to fit their own programs, all in one handy volume. Esteemed author and SAS expert Ron Cody covers such topics as character to numeric conversion, automatic detection of numeric errors, combining summary data with detail data, restructuring a data set, grouping values using several innovative methods, performing an operation on all character or all numeric variables in a SAS data set, and much more! SAS users of all levels interested in improving their programming skills will benefit from this easy-to-follow collection of tasks.