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allurai0412
Fluorite | Level 6

hhi,

I am new to SAS

please help me how to Import the SAS datafiles

I know PROCIMPORT can impor the CSV,TXT files,,

But can we do this same for files like TEST,DAT  ...(sas datasets)??

Regards

ALLU

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PGStats
Opal | Level 21

You don't need to import a SAS dataset (something like TEST.sas7bdat) into SAS. You just need to tell SAS where it is with a libname statement :

libname DS "C:\myDataSets";

then you can access it with syntax :

proc print data=DS.TEST; run;

PG

PG

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PGStats
Opal | Level 21

You don't need to import a SAS dataset (something like TEST.sas7bdat) into SAS. You just need to tell SAS where it is with a libname statement :

libname DS "C:\myDataSets";

then you can access it with syntax :

proc print data=DS.TEST; run;

PG

PG
allurai0412
Fluorite | Level 6

thanks...

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