Reading xls file having single quote using proc import

[ucvikas]

Dear All

I have xls file and one of column has value like this 'some text1','some text2','some text3' (with quotes)  ,While reading this xls file using proc import SAS  misses first " ' " from the value in dataset .and I get value in dataset as

some text1','some text2','some text3' (note 1st quote is missing)

Can anyone let me know reason or fix for this ?

[RW9]

Please supply the code you are using and an example file as it appears you are talking about two different things.  What I mean by this is that an Excel XLS file would not be stored as you state above (unless of course the quotes are in the cells themselves), so I am assuming that you are talking about a CSV (comma separated variable) file, which Excel can open, but is not a native Excel file format.

So what is your code for importing this, do you want all the text in one variable?  Maybe try:

data want;

     infile "You_data.csv" dsd missover dlm='¬';

     input buffer $varying256.;

run;

[ucvikas]

I use code something like this

proc import datafile = "location_of_file/test_file.xls"

            out      =  test_file replace dbms=xls;

            sheet    = "sheet1";

  getnames = yes;

run;

attached is test file (see original post) and you will notice that first single quote is missed once file is read with the code I supplied;