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hhchenfx
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Hi Everyone,

 

I would like to read text data with semi-colon as in below code.

My data has only 1 column of text

 

Can you please help me with that?

 

Thank you so much,

 

HHCFX

 

data have;
	infile datalines dlm="|";
	length var $ 30000;
	input var $;
	datalines;
afdasb
12132ndfd
df;dfd;
semi;colon;;;fa

;run;

 

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r_behata
Barite | Level 11

Use datalines4 instead of datalines for reading the inline data with semicolons.

 

data have;
infile datalines dlm="|";
length var $ 30000;
input var $;
datalines4;
afdasb
12132ndfd
df;dfd;
semi;colon;;;fa
;;;;
run;

 

 

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r_behata
Barite | Level 11

Use datalines4 instead of datalines for reading the inline data with semicolons.

 

data have;
infile datalines dlm="|";
length var $ 30000;
input var $;
datalines4;
afdasb
12132ndfd
df;dfd;
semi;colon;;;fa
;;;;
run;

 

 

hhchenfx
Rhodochrosite | Level 12
Thank you for your help.
Hhcfx

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