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sandyming
Calcite | Level 5

I want to delete the same line from many SAS PROGRAMS. is there a easy way to do it?

Sandy

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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

What tools do you have? sed should be able to do.

Since they are SAS programs why not use SAS to do it?

data _null_;

   length infile outfile $200 ;

   infile '*.sas' filename=infile ;

   input ;

   outfile = cats(infile,'.new');

   file new filevar=outfile;

   if _infile_^='DELETE THIS LINE;' then put _infile_;

run;

ballardw
Super User

If you use Tom's approach make sure the length, the $200, actually covers the length of ALL lines in the files.

I know that programs really shouldn't have lines that long but occasional things like datalines may exceed that expectation.


Sudhakar_A
Calcite | Level 5

Can you explain in detail about your requirement with an example?

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