Hi!
For example, I have this 4 X 4 table in SAS (it has 4 columns, and 4 rows excluding the headers).
If exported to excel, the range would be translated to A1:D5.
I need help how to get the D5 value.
Thank you!
If this is about the text "D5", then you could calculate it in SAS using the dataset you would like to export:
Data A;
Input X1-X4;
Datalines;
1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1
;
Run;
Data xx;
Length Text_Col $2.;
MyFile=Open("A");
Rows=Attrn(MyFile,"NObs")+1; * including Header;
Cols=Attrn(MyFile,"NVars");
If (Cols le 26) Then Text_Col=Byte(64+Cols);
Else If (Cols ge 27) & (Cols le 676) Then Text_Col=(Byte(64+Int(Cols/26)))!!Byte(64+Mod(Cols,26));
ExcelCell=Compress(Text_Col!!Put(Rows,Best8.));
Put "**" ExcelCell "**"; * "D5" is in the log ... ;
MyFile=Close("A");
Run;
You could manually calculate it.
Why though? Excel also supports RC notation which may be easier to derive. RC=row/column so A1:D5 would be R1C1:R5C4
If this is about the text "D5", then you could calculate it in SAS using the dataset you would like to export:
Data A;
Input X1-X4;
Datalines;
1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1
;
Run;
Data xx;
Length Text_Col $2.;
MyFile=Open("A");
Rows=Attrn(MyFile,"NObs")+1; * including Header;
Cols=Attrn(MyFile,"NVars");
If (Cols le 26) Then Text_Col=Byte(64+Cols);
Else If (Cols ge 27) & (Cols le 676) Then Text_Col=(Byte(64+Int(Cols/26)))!!Byte(64+Mod(Cols,26));
ExcelCell=Compress(Text_Col!!Put(Rows,Best8.));
Put "**" ExcelCell "**"; * "D5" is in the log ... ;
MyFile=Close("A");
Run;
Hi,
What is the purpose, are you trying to write to a specific range? I fso then you may be better of with libname to Excel.
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