topic Re: how to read this .txt file into SAS in SAS Programming

how to read this .txt file into SAS

GeorgeSAS — Fri, 12 May 2017 02:56:39 GMT

Hello,

I have a .txt file abc.txt:

/*Program name newcode.sas*/
/*This SAS program will print sashelp.class*/
proc print data=sashelp.class;
run;
data a;
"set sashelp.class;
run;

How I can read it in to SAS dataset?

Thanks

Re: how to read this .txt file into SAS

art297 — Fri, 12 May 2017 03:00:49 GMT

@GeorgeSAS,

I think this is related to your last question. Lookup %include

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

Re: how to read this .txt file into SAS

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 12 May 2017 06:49:23 GMT

The obvious question here is, of course: what are you planning to do with SAS code in a dataset?

Reading just text into a dataset is simple:

data textdata;
infile "textfile" truncover;
input textline $100.;
run;

After that step has run, check for maximum length of textline. If that is equal to the defined length, increase the format in the input statement; if length exceeds 254, als set a corresponding lrecl in the infile statement. Once you find that max(length(textline)) is smaller than the defined length, you can be sure that all text is read.

With large length values and nobs > several thousand, use the compress=yes option on the dataset.