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alandool
Quartz | Level 8

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

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Reeza
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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


 

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Reeza
Super User

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


 

alandool
Quartz | Level 8

Thank you for the information, Reeza!

 

- Alan

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