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venkatnaveen
Obsidian | Level 7

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.

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LinusH
Tourmaline | Level 20

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?

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damanaulakh88
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi.

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

Patrick
Opal | Level 21

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

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