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SuperSaiyan
Calcite | Level 5

Hello is there a way to shorten this?
data have;
infile ;
@5 var1 1.
@6 var2 1.
@7 var3 1.
@8 var4 1.
@9 var5 1.
@10 var6 1.
@11 var7 1.
@12 var8 1.
@13 var9 1.
@14 var10 1.
@15 var11 1.
@16 var12 1.
@17 var13 1.
@18 var14 1.
@19 var15 1.
@20 var16 1.
@21 var17 1.
@22 var18 1.
@23 var19 1.
@24 var20 1.
;
run;

 

the data im trying to export has no delimiters hence the width and column number.

I tried @5 var1-var20 but getting errors, how do I use the numbered range variable list with data that has no delimiters (i.e 1234567891011222222267)?

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Astounding
PROC Star

Try it this way:

 

input @5 (var1-var20) (1.);

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novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

My obs:

1. export to where?

2. What kind of external file

3. what kind of delimiters you want to separate data

4. choice of statements such as file(routing to external file) and put is missing, why?

5. have you considered export procedure?

6. what is the null infile statement doing

and many more

SuperSaiyan
Calcite | Level 5

infile 'test.txt';

 

SuperSaiyan
Calcite | Level 5
the data on the txt file has no delimiters (meaning no spaces or whatever) example 12345678910 each has name var1 var2 var3 var4 .... and so on, but this is too long, iwant to use var1-varn, but cannot get it
Astounding
PROC Star

Try it this way:

 

input @5 (var1-var20) (1.);

SuperSaiyan
Calcite | Level 5
Thank you! It worked!

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