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KrishnaChandra
Calcite | Level 5

How to get the meaningful data set from this text file.

How can i get the data set from different delimiters ???

test.txt

101|jasmine/3000

102-roy\5000

103*david,7000

Please let me know the what I should do?

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Scott_Mitchell
Quartz | Level 8

You can specify more than one delimter as per the below.

DATA HAVE;

INFILE DATALINES DLM='|/-\*,';

INPUT ID NAME $ VALUE;

DATALINES;

101|JASMINE/3000

102-ROY\5000

103*DAVID,7000

;

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Scott_Mitchell
Quartz | Level 8

You can specify more than one delimter as per the below.

DATA HAVE;

INFILE DATALINES DLM='|/-\*,';

INPUT ID NAME $ VALUE;

DATALINES;

101|JASMINE/3000

102-ROY\5000

103*DAVID,7000

;

sas_lak
Quartz | Level 8

/* when the data having multiple delemiters and different length we should give the proper position or length for the data */

DATA OUT_PUT;

INFILE DATALINES DLM='|/-\*,';

INPUT ID @+0 NAME $ @+0 VALUE @+0;               /* DEFINE THE LENGTH AND POSITION */

DATALINES;

101|JASMINE/3000

102-ROY\5000

103*DAVID,7000

;

run;

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