topic Input datalines with tab in SAS Programming

Input datalines with tab

hhchenfx — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:22:58 GMT

Hello,

I want to create a dataset with character as below where tab is used to separate value.

In the second set, the datalines is mixed with space and tab to separate value.

Can you please help me with that?

Thank you,

HHCFX

data name1;
input name :$32.  @@;
datalines;
a	b	c	d	e	f
;

data name2;
input name :$32.  @@;
datalines;
a b	c d	e	f
;

JBailey — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:15:41 GMT

This will work but it is very different than your examples.

data test;
  input c1 $ c2 $ c3 $ c4 $ c5 $;  
datalines;
a b c d		f
run;

Best wishes,

Jeff

Reeza — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:17:38 GMT

DLM can specify multiple delimiters.

This worked for me, by manually entering a space followed by a tab in the editor.

data name2;
infile cards dlm=" 	"; *space and tab keyed in;
input name :$32.  @@;
datalines;
a b c d e	f
;

run;

hhchenfx — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:25:53 GMT

Thanks a lot.

It works great!

HHCFX

Ksharp — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:17:44 GMT

data name2;
infile cards expandtabs;
input name :$32.  @@;
datalines;
a b c d e	f
;
run;