topic Re: large .pl file for census data in SAS Enterprise Guide https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/large-pl-file-for-census-data/m-p/124719#M10269 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>They are basically just big text files.&nbsp; See</P><P><A href="http://www.census.gov/rdo/pdf/0HowToUseMicrosoftAccessShells.pdf" title="http://www.census.gov/rdo/pdf/0HowToUseMicrosoftAccessShells.pdf">http://www.census.gov/rdo/pdf/0HowToUseMicrosoftAccessShells.pdf</A></P><P>for a description of importing them into Access.&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>Once you rename them to .txt, you could read a few records with SAS and output to another .txt file that your editor could handle (Use PUT _infile_; and the OBS OPTION to limit the number of records.)</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:20:44 GMT Doc_Duke 2013-01-14T20:20:44Z large .pl file for census data https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/large-pl-file-for-census-data/m-p/124718#M10268 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello All,</P><P></P><P>can anyone please let me know how can i open large .pl file?</P><P>I am working on census data and i have couple of very large files (with extension .pl) which are not opening in notepad or wordpad - error msg says file is too large for notepad, use dufferent tools to open the data. this files contains raw data information which i can use for SASEG.</P><P>I did try to rename file with different extentions but not opening...</P><P></P><P>please advise.</P><P></P><P>Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:03:05 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/large-pl-file-for-census-data/m-p/124718#M10268 sas_9 2013-01-14T18:03:05Z Re: large .pl file for census data https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/large-pl-file-for-census-data/m-p/124719#M10269 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>They are basically just big text files.&nbsp; See</P><P><A href="http://www.census.gov/rdo/pdf/0HowToUseMicrosoftAccessShells.pdf" title="http://www.census.gov/rdo/pdf/0HowToUseMicrosoftAccessShells.pdf">http://www.census.gov/rdo/pdf/0HowToUseMicrosoftAccessShells.pdf</A></P><P>for a description of importing them into Access.&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>Once you rename them to .txt, you could read a few records with SAS and output to another .txt file that your editor could handle (Use PUT _infile_; and the OBS OPTION to limit the number of records.)</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:20:44 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/large-pl-file-for-census-data/m-p/124719#M10269 Doc_Duke 2013-01-14T20:20:44Z