topic Re: Reading raw files in SAS Programming

Reading raw files

Bulleride — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:26:20 GMT

QUESTION:The contents of the SAS data set PERM.JAN_SALES are listed below: VARIABLE NAME TYPE idnumcharacter variable sales_datenumeric date value A comma delimited raw data file needs to be created from the PERM.JAN_SALES data set. The SALES_DATE values need to be in a MMDDYY10 form. Which one of the following SAS DATA steps correctly creates this raw data file?

A. libname perm 'SAS-data-library';
data_null_;
set perm.jan_sales;
put idnum sales_date : mmddyy 10.;
run;
B. libname perm 'SAS-data-library';
data_null_;
set perm.jan_sales;
put idnum sales_date : mmddyy 10.;
run;
C. libname perm 'SAS-data-library';
data_null_;
set perm.jan_sales;
put idnum sales_date : mmddyy 10. dlm = ',';
run;
D. libname perm 'SAS-data-library';
data_null_;
set perm.jan_sales;
put idnum sales_date : mmddyy 10. dsd = ',';
run;

Ans – B

Re: Reading raw files

mohamed_zaki — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:37:51 GMT

None.

To write to a file you need a DATA step with a FILE statement and a PUT statement.

So they are all wrong.

C and D are wrong for that plus that DSD and DLM are not specification parameter of the put statment but the File statments.

After that you need to be aware of the differeance between DLM and DSD and which will let you have the delimiter you specify.

Writing a SAS Dataset To a Text File

So this questions is copied wrong.

Re: Reading raw files

Bulleride — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:58:23 GMT

Thanks a lot Zaki 🙂

Re: Reading raw files

lxn1021 — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:13:19 GMT

None of the four options is correct. The correct one should be

data _null_;
set Jan_sales;
file "E:\SAS\Jan_sales.txt" dlm=",";
put idnum sales_date:mmddyy10.;
run;

Re: Reading raw files

Bulleride — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:58:16 GMT

Thanks 🙂 This helps me.