Hi all,
Hopefully a simple question - what's the best way to exclude the last row of a raw file from being imported into SAS?
I know I can simply take the number of observations minus 1 after importing the data, but would rather condense into one data step if possible.
Thanks!
data want ;
infile 'myfile' end=eof ;
input @ ;
if eof then delete ;
input .... ;
run;
data want ;
infile 'myfile' end=eof ;
input @ ;
if eof then delete ;
input .... ;
run;
Thanks Tom!
hi ... another idea ...
data new;
infile 'z:\test.txt' end=last;
input a b c;
if ^last;
run;
Now if the last row is being excluded because it is a footnote instead of data you will get a lot of error messages about invalid data on your log.
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