to read flatfiles without header and footer

[venkatnaveen]

Hi,

How I can read flat files without reading header and footer,suppose I have an flat files with 100pages,I wanna to read those files into my sas environment ,without reading header and footer.

[LinusH]

You mean that you file has header and footer, and you want wish to avoid those?

Header is on row 1 i guess, so just if _n_ = 1 then delete;

Footer, if yo are sure that there always is a footer, make use of the END= infile option.

And what do you mean that you have 100 pages in the file, what kind of file is it?

[venkatnaveen]

Thanks

[venkatnaveen]

thanks

[damanaulakh88]

Hi.

infile <filename> firstobs=2 will skip the first header record.

[venkatnaveen]

Thanks

[Patrick]

Is there anything in your source which identifies a header and a footer? Eg. a column "record type"?

[venkatnaveen]

thanks