https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-sas7bdat-into-C/m-p/736996#M229711 <P>Hello,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I'm trying to read a sas7bdat file into a c environment.&nbsp; However, no one on my team seems to be able to figure this out.&nbsp; Is there any user out there that has done this?&nbsp;</P> Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:18:28 GMT jordan_howell 2021-04-26T14:18:28Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-sas7bdat-into-C/m-p/736996#M229711 <P>Hello,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I'm trying to read a sas7bdat file into a c environment.&nbsp; However, no one on my team seems to be able to figure this out.&nbsp; Is there any user out there that has done this?&nbsp;</P> Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:18:28 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-sas7bdat-into-C/m-p/736996#M229711 jordan_howell 2021-04-26T14:18:28Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-sas7bdat-into-C/m-p/737007#M229717 <P>The sas7bdat file format is not documented...and it varies slightly across releases as the format is enhanced.&nbsp; Only SAS software can read the content and all of its attributes reliably.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>However, you can (on Windows) use the SAS local data provider via OLE DB to read SAS data sets without having full SAS installed.&nbsp; <A href="https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2012/04/12/build-your-own-sas-data-set-viewer-using-powershell/" target="_self">I have a PowerShell example here</A> -- the same could be invoked within a C program.&nbsp; You can download the SAS local OLE DB provider from SAS support (link in the blog).</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>If you have access to a SAS server and want to read SAS data from your SAS environment using other applications, <A href="https://github.com/sassoftware/saspy" target="_self">look at the saspy Python library</A>.</P> Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:00:20 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-sas7bdat-into-C/m-p/737007#M229717 ChrisHemedinger 2021-04-26T15:00:20Z