Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a way to read in a GZIP'ed SAS dataset (.GZ) without unzipping it first? I found where this question was asked back in 2008. The short answer was no. Hoping that has changed.
Alan
https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2017/10/10/reading-writing-gzip-files-sas/
@alandool wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a way to read in a GZIP'ed SAS dataset (.GZ) without unzipping it first? I found where this question was asked back in 2008. The short answer was no. Hoping that has changed.
Alan
https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2017/10/10/reading-writing-gzip-files-sas/
@alandool wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a way to read in a GZIP'ed SAS dataset (.GZ) without unzipping it first? I found where this question was asked back in 2008. The short answer was no. Hoping that has changed.
Alan
Thank you for the information, Reeza!
- Alan
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