Reading text files

[R_A_G_]

Hello SAS experts,

I am trying to read an external text file but my code does not work. any help is appreciated

this is what I am trying to read from:

New/Additional Parameters

    L1_0              -1.682      0.342     -4.911      0.000

    L1_11              2.310      0.370      6.251      0.000

    L2_0              -1.522      0.280     -5.433      0.000

    L2_12              2.009      0.281      7.144      0.000

    L3_0              -2.238      0.430     -5.202      0.000

    L3_12              1.689      0.351      4.813      0.000

    L3_13              2.228      0.346      6.430      0.000

    L4_0              -1.167      0.211     -5.544      0.000

    L4_11              1.825      0.368      4.957      0.000

    L5_0              -1.796      0.359     -4.999      0.000

    L5_11              1.452      0.536      2.709      0.007

    L5_13              1.915      0.491      3.897      0.000

    L6_0              -1.995      0.504     -3.961      0.000

    L6_11              1.516      1.194      1.269      0.204

    L6_12              2.161      0.717      3.015      0.003

    L7_0              -3.626      0.550     -6.597      0.000

    L7_11              2.524      0.550      4.593      0.000

this is my code:

data CDM.temp_&seed;

infile "c:\cdm\&commandfile..out" truncover end=finished;/***********/

input test $21. @;

if trim(test)="New/Additional Parameters" then do;

input  / @20 L1_0

         / / @20  L3_0

        / / L3_0

        / / / L4_0

        / / L5_0

;

output;

stop;

end;

drop test;

run;

proc print;run;

[R_A_G_]

figured it out. This is how:

data CDM.temp_&seed;

infile "c:\cdm\&commandfile..out" truncover;

input test $27. @; /* 27= the lenght of New/Additional Parameters*/

if trim(test)="New/Additional Parameters" then do;

input  /     @23 L1_0

         / /   @23 L2_0

         / /   @23 L3_0

        / / / @23 L4_0

        / /   @23 L5_0

        / /   @23 L6_0

        / / / / @23 L7_0

            ;

output;

stop;

end;

drop test;

run;

[FloydNevseta]

Yes, it does look like you figured out how to read that particular file. But it seems that your data can vary, so you need a little flexibility. Since you seem to only want to keep tests that end in '_0' then the following code will allow you to check each test instead of using hardcoded line breaks which may fail you the next time you have to run it. The transposition creates the final dataset using the names of the test as the names of the variables

data temp;
infile 'c:\temp\commandfile.out' firstobs=2;
input test $ @;
if scan( test, -1, '_' ) = '0' then do;
   input parm;
   output;
end;
run;

proc transpose data=temp out=temp;
id test;
run;