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EYend
Calcite | Level 5

I would like to know how to output a tab delimited text file with the first header record being the field names.

I used if _n_=1 to insert header record but it did not work.

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

Hi,

 

Something like (note that I would recommend comma separated, tabs are too application specific):

proc sql noprint;
  select distinct NAME 
  into  :VLIST separated by " "
  from  SASHELP.VCOLUMN
  where LIBNAME="SASHELP"
    and MEMNAME="CARS";
quit;

data _null_;
  set sashelp.cars;
  file "s:\temp\rob\temp.txt" dlm=",";
  if _n_=1 then do;
    temp=tranwrd("&vlist."," ",",");
    put temp;
    put &vlist.;
  end;
  else put &vlist.;
run;
PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

PROC EXPORT with DBMS=TAB will do what you want

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