topic Re: import list style data in SAS Programming

import list style data

AlexeyS — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 04:39:17 GMT

data test;

infile datalines dlm=',' dsd;

input Product $ Sale dollar6. ExchangeRate 4.2;

datalines;

Boot,29,761$,3.61

Men's Casual,67,242$,3.5

Sport Shoe,1,690$,3.48

;

run;

Re: import list style data

Norman21 — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 04:49:15 GMT

Perhaps this can help?

http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=lestmtsref&docsetTarget=n0lrz3gb7m9e4rn137op544ddg0v.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en#n1dyx4r7yqsmuun1mk3cbw7ih06w

"Example 2: Reading Character Data That Contains Embedded Blanks"

Re: import list style data

AlexeyS — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 04:55:02 GMT

Hi, thank you for your help, but this is not the same case.

Re: import list style data

Ksharp — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:25:41 GMT

Your data are totally messed up.

data test;
infile datalines ;
input ;
p=find(_infile_,',');
product=substr(_infile_,1,p-1);

_infile_=substr(_infile_,p+1);
p=find(_infile_,'$');
sale=input(substr(_infile_,1,p),comma32.);

_infile_=substr(_infile_,p+1);
ratio=input(_infile_,comma32.);

drop p;
datalines;
Boot,29,761$,3.61
Men's Casual,67,242$,3.5
Sport Shoe,1,690$,3.48
;
run;

Re: import list style data

error_prone — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 17:14:45 GMT

@AlexeyS are the numbers of "sale" always at least 4 digits? I would contact the person that provided the data and request a csv-file complying with csv-file specs.

Re: import list style data

Tom — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 20:29:09 GMT

So your source data is not formatted properly for anything. You cannot use comma as the delimiter and also have comma in the values. If your values contain the delimiter character then they need to be in quotes. Like this:

Boot,"29,761$",3.61
Men's Casual,"67,242$",3.5
Sport Shoe,"1,690$",3.48

But the presence of the $ after the value does present a method that might make it possible to read the data.

data fixed;
  infile datalines dlm=',' dsd truncover column=cc;
  length Product $20 Sale 8 ExchangeRate 8;
  input product @ ;
  start=cc ;
  input @'$' @ ;
  sale=input(substrn(_infile_,start,cc-start-1),comma32.);
  input @cc+1 ExchangeRate ;
  drop start;
datalines;
Boot,29,761$,3.61
Men's Casual,67,242$,3.5
Sport Shoe,1,690$,3.48
;