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How to set special characters in SAS Base code

If you ever end up having a sas variable, which contains special characters in it, and you want to split them into each separate variable, you need to use a ascii number equivalent to required special character,and at x at the end of the string. For example, if the special character is tabulator: In ASCII table, '09'x is a ascii equivalent to tab character.

How to round the number up to 2 digits in Javascript

Sometimes you need to round up the number up to 2 digits. For example, you calculation has to show a result in currency. There are two solutions to use on internet: 1) Use Math.random function. var a=123.4567; Math.random(a*100)/100 However, this is not really good, as for example in case of var a=1.005; Math.random(a*100)/100 results into 1 instead of 1.01. 2) use toFixed(2) However, it is more secure option to use a.toFixed(2), which would return element as fixed 2 decimal value

How to download/upload a SAS dataset from server to your local machine

There is a neat way the EG offers you to download SAS datasets. Under a menu bar, there are a options "Tasks" - "Data" - "Upload Data Files to Server" and   "Tasks" - "Data" - "Download Data Files to PC"  In case of "Download Data Files to PC", you need to choose a dataset you want to transfer. My humble suggestion is to first subset the original dataset to a temporal dataset you exactly need, and download only the temporal dataset. Detailed screenshots will follow...