topic Reading xls file having single quote using proc import in SAS Procedures

Reading xls file having single quote using proc import

ucvikas — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:15:21 GMT

Dear All

I have xls file and one of column has value like this 'some text1','some text2','some text3' (with quotes) ,While reading this xls file using proc import SAS misses first " ' " from the value in dataset .and I get value in dataset as

some text1','some text2','some text3' (note 1st quote is missing)

Can anyone let me know reason or fix for this ?

Re: Reading xls file having single quote using proc import

RW9 — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:22:31 GMT

Please supply the code you are using and an example file as it appears you are talking about two different things. What I mean by this is that an Excel XLS file would not be stored as you state above (unless of course the quotes are in the cells themselves), so I am assuming that you are talking about a CSV (comma separated variable) file, which Excel can open, but is not a native Excel file format.

So what is your code for importing this, do you want all the text in one variable? Maybe try:

data want;

infile "You_data.csv" dsd missover dlm='¬';

input buffer $varying256.;

run;

Re: Reading xls file having single quote using proc import

ucvikas — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:08:05 GMT

I use code something like this

proc import datafile = "location_of_file/test_file.xls"

out = test_file replace dbms=xls;

sheet = "sheet1";

getnames = yes;

run;

attached is test file (see original post) and you will notice that first single quote is missed once file is read with the code I supplied;