topic How to inport a datafile with intergers and long decimal digits in SAS Programming

How to inport a datafile with intergers and long decimal digits

DingDing — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 02:09:38 GMT

attached is the dataset,

DATA data;
INFILE "......\data.txt";

INPUT  A 11.  B          ;

RUN;

but the result is weird. some values are right, but some of them are false.

The log shows:

14 CHAR 10.20.00000001 14
ZONE 33033233333333
NUMR 10920E00000001
A=. B=1 _ERROR_=1 _N_=13
NOTE: 16 records were read from the infile "\\client\E$\course
materials\continue\Homeworks\HW2\data.txt".
The minimum record length was 4.
The maximum record length was 24.
NOTE: SAS went to a new line when INPUT statement reached past the end of a line.
NOTE: The data set WORK.DATA has 14 observations and 2 variables.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
real time 0.26 seconds
cpu time 0.03 seconds

What is the matter of my code? and What does the former lines(in red) mean in the log?

Re: How to inport a datafile with intergers and long decimal digits

PGStats — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 05:05:47 GMT

The values in your file are separated by tab characters and start on line 2. So you must read them with:

data data;
infile "......\Data.txt" dlm='09'x firstobs=2;
input a b;
run;

Re: How to inport a datafile with intergers and long decimal digits

pearsoninst — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 07:55:52 GMT

Hi can you explain '09'x this ?

Re: How to inport a datafile with intergers and long decimal digits

DingDing — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 09:15:08 GMT

Thanks MR. PGstats, it works!!

Re: How to inport a datafile with intergers and long decimal digits

PGStats — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 16:17:16 GMT

'09'x is the hexadecimal representation of a tabulation character.