why the output file is like this ?

[tianerhu]

proc export data = work.flightempdata
 outfile = "C:\Users\li\Documents\My SAS Files\prep guide\base\practice data\cert\flightempdata.csv"
 dbms = CSV
 replace;
run;

additionally, the four value from the second to fifth of the column date is missing . why?

the answer is like following:

[Reeza · Accepted solution]

What is the issue? I'm not seeing any issue?

You should open the file in a text editor though, not Excel. When you open your data with Excel it essentially does it's own conversion so you aren't seeing the actual data here. Right click your file, Open with>NotePad or TextPad or whatever you use to view text files.

[tianerhu]

Get it . Thank you for your help .

[tianerhu]

Thank you for your help.

[Kurt_Bremser]

No. The correct answer is:

NEVER USE EXCEL TO INSPECT A CSV FILE.

Use a proper text editor instead.

[tianerhu]

Thank you for your help.

[ballardw]

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@tianerhu wrote:

proc export data = work.flightempdata
 outfile = "C:\Users\li\Documents\My SAS Files\prep guide\base\practice data\cert\flightempdata.csv"
 dbms = CSV
 replace;
run;

additionally, the four value from the second to fifth of the column date is missing . why?

the answer is like following:

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What missing dates? Excel is showing ********, nothing missing. It does that when the value in the expected display format will not fit. Make the column wider if you really must see the data in Excel. Not a good idea as if you accidentally "save" the file while open in Excel you may find the actual values in a CSV file get changed because Excel already did one conversion to internal preferences to display the values.

[tianerhu]

Thank you for your help.