Hello everyone,
I have a excel file with one column,
I want to import it into SAS and get an character variable,I attached the excel file.
My problem is : if I opended the excel file then run the SAS code, the variable will be like 0.745 for the first obs ,but if I close the excel file then run the SAS code ,the value of the first obs will be changed to 74.5%.
Could anyone help me point out the reason of the problem?
Thanks!
Mike
PROC IMPORT
OUT= _test2
datafile="c:\temp\oops.xls"
DBMS=EXCEL REPLACE;
GETNAMES=YES;
MIXED=YES;
USEDATE=YES;
SCANTIME=YES;
RUN;
delete the first two blank rows so PROC IMPORT will work as intended.
The data in the spreadsheet are actually numeric with a format applied by Excel.
Mike,
If you do want this variable to be a character variable you can use the following option within your PROC IMPORT:
DBDSOPTS= "DBSASTYPE=(%_of_value='Char(4)')";
When running this you may also want to change the MIXED option from YES to NO.
Interesting , If you use another engine XLS ,you will different result:
PROC IMPORT
OUT= _test2
datafile="c:\temp\oops.xls"
DBMS=xls REPLACE;
GETNAMES=YES;
MIXED=YES;
RUN;
Ksharp
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