Where to get help for SAS problems

SAS-L, the SAS users' mailing list, is archived here: http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/sas-l.html. I find it tedious to search. A better solution is to use Google. When you search for any SAS-related term, you're very likely to find research notes written for SAS USer Group (SUG) meetings. SAS User Groups meet frequently all over the US and the world, and publish notes which describe specific features of SAS. Many of the references of this document are such notes.

The first place to go when you want to learn how to use a new feature of SAS (as opposed to being stuck on a particular problem) is an SUG publication (there may be several) on that topic. For instance, to learn about arrays in SAS, you could read ``Arrays Made Easy: An Introduction to Arrays and Array Processing'' http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi30/242-30.pdf. Almost all these notes are easy to understand, and have detailed examples.