topic import txt in SAS Procedures

import txt

ccnky123 — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 23:16:23 GMT

Now I have a acustomer list D:\cust_list.txt,and this text has one column "party_no"(the max length is 22),and the first row of this txt is column name.Please tell me how to import it to library 'puball' with data step.

thanks!

Re: import txt

VDD — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:13:17 GMT

this should give you want you asking for.

filename datain "D:\cust_list.txt";
data want;
infile datain;
input @1 party_no $22.;
run;

Re: import txt

andreas_lds — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 05:48:35 GMT

Two minor changes to the code posted by @VDD:

filename datain "D:\cust_list.txt";
libname puball "....";

data pubull.want;
  infile datain firstobs=2;
  input @1 party_no $22.;
run;

In production jobs i always recommend not to overwrite a permanent dataset with an importing step, but to store the imported data in a temporary dataset first and copy the dataset to the library after it has been verified that the import was successful.