topic Re: How should I write the code for this delimiter problem? in SAS Programming

How should I write the code for this delimiter problem?

Shrade — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 19:59:17 GMT

As you can see, at observation 12, the value should be "Dracula:Dead and Loving It (1995)" for the title. However, I got what's shown in the picture above. This is my code:

libname perm '/home/cheok19970/Assignment';
data perm.movies;
informat MovieID 4. Title $60. Genre $50.;
infile '/home/cheok19970/Assignment/movies.dat' dlm=':|';
input MovieID Title $ Genre $;
run;

Since I put colon and vertical pipe as the delimiter, the code is eliminating all the ":" and "|" in the data set. Besides, the output genre only shows one genre. How do i fix it?

Re: How should I write the code for this delimiter problem?

Reeza — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:36:38 GMT

DLMSTR in the infile statement. Look it up under the INFILE documentation.

Re: How should I write the code for this delimiter problem?

Shrade — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:45:14 GMT

libname perm '/home/cheok19970/Assignment';
data perm.movies;
	informat MovieID 4. Title $60. Genre $50.;
	infile '/home/cheok19970/Assignment/movies.dat' dlmstr=':|';
	input MovieID Title $ Genre $;
run;

proc print data=perm.movies noobs;
run;

I'm getting weird output 😕

Re: How should I write the code for this delimiter problem?

Reeza — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 21:12:24 GMT

The DLMSTR should be :: and then you need to parse GENRE out separately after, because the number of entries there are not consistent, some have 1, some have 3 genres. Make sure to parse out the year as well. For either you can use the SCAN function.

There are some other data issues throughout.

There's actually code on here somewhere on how to read the file properly, someone else asked this already.