topic How to read specific rows from a source file when column names are inserted several times? in SAS Programming

How to read specific rows from a source file when column names are inserted several times?

tofuslim — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:06:14 GMT

Hi experts

I have a txt file where the column names are inserted several times in the text file (look at the attachment).

I want to read from row 1-3, 7-8 and 12-13.

Is it possible?

Appreciate for any help you can give me.

best regards

Johan

Re: How to read specific rows from a source file when column names are inserted several times?

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:48:35 GMT

Do a test-read, hold the line pointer (@), and conclude the data step iteration only for data you want:

data want;
infile cards truncover;
input id $ name $@;
if ID not in ('ID',' ');
input age;
cards;
ID NAME AGE
1 OLE 31
2 PER 50


ID NAME AGE
3 KARI 45
4 PETTER 31


ID NAME AGE
5 JOHAN 60
6 EVA 45
;
run;

Re: How to read specific rows from a source file when column names are inserted several times?

tofuslim — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:40:39 GMT

Thank you very much. It works nicely.