From the course: SAS® 9.4 Cert Prep: Part 08 Controlling Data Step Processing

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DATA step review

DATA step review

- [Instructor] The data step is the primary tool you use in the SAS programming language for manipulating data. Let's take a look at a data step that has statements that should be familiar to you. This data step reads and writes tables, filters rows, computes new columns, uses conditional processing to assign values to a new column, and subsets columns. You know what this code does, but now you learn how SAS works behind the scenes to process data.

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