Learning SAS: A Guide to String Concatenation with CAT, CATS, and CATX Functions
String manipulation is a fundamental requirement in almost every data processing workflow. In SAS, the process of combining two or more character variables into a single variable is known as string concatenation. While traditional methods like the double pipe operator (`||`) exist, SAS provides a powerful family of functions—the CAT functions—that are specifically designed to […]
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