topic column with delimiter in SAS Programming

column with delimiter

Ronein — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:23:51 GMT

Hello

In the following examples there are columns (char) with delimiter.

Why the data sets are not created well?

data example1;
infile datalines dlm="|" dsd;
input var1 $ ;
datalines;
ABC|2015|XYZ
ABC||XYZ
;
run;

data example2;
input var1 $ ;
datalines;
ABC,2015,XYZ
ABC,XYZ
;
run;

Re: column with delimiter

PeterClemmensen — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 06:10:40 GMT

What did you expect from this code? What is your desired result?

Re: column with delimiter

andreas_lds — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 06:12:11 GMT

If the char used a delimiter between variable can appear in char variables as content, then that content has to be enclosed in quotes. If it is not quoted, return the file to the one who created it, explaining that such garbage could be processed, but requires more time to write the code and requires additional to verify the result.

Re: column with delimiter

Ronein — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 06:13:30 GMT

Look at the values in the data set that was created.

Do you see that the values are not matched to values that I entered

Re: column with delimiter

Shmuel — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:30:43 GMT

You have 3 variables per row, then change your code to:

data example1;
informat var1-var3 $5.;
infile datalines dlm="|" dsd;
input var1 var2 var3 ;
datalines;
ABC|2015|XYZ
ABC||XYZ
;
run;

Re: column with delimiter

Tom — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:26:01 GMT

What output do you want?

Your current programs are just reading the first value from the data lines.