Manipulating the output of SAS with quotation marks

[Tom]

I am not sure what your question is.  If you want to force SAS to put in quotes when writing a delimited file using DSD option, even when the quotes are not needed you can use the ~ format modifier.

Try this little program to see the effect of the using the ~ modifier.

data _null_;

  input name $20.;

  file log dlm=',' dsd;

  put name name ~ ;

cards;

This, Needs quotes

This "needs" quotes

no quote needed

run;

[andreas_schmitz]

Hi Tom,

thanks for your post and help.

Currently all my questions are resolved. I had several questions but I got a lot of help here.

Recently, I had the problem that the DSD option forced the quotes in the output but I did not want them, so I simply left out the DSD option.