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PROC EXPLODE - Using SAS to Produce Informational Printed Pages
Brian Charles Shilling, Bristol Myers-Squibb Company

In most of our work as Pharmaceutical Industry Programmers, the SAS output that we produce is forwarded to internal or external clients. Statisticians, medical writers, clinicians, and the like are utilizing the output of our daily work. In many cases, the re are information that needs to travel along with this output. Many programmers include this information in a study document or email that is separate from the output file, and at times, can get misplaced. This short presentation will inform basic and advanced SAS users in the use of PROC EXPLODE. PROC EXPLODE allows the programmer to add informational text and/or messages directly to a separate page of output located directly in the output file. When clients access or print the reports, this informatio n is not lost, as it is saved directly in the SAS output file.