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Ronein
Onyx | Level 15

Hello

Let's say that I export cars data set into txt file with comma delimiter.

Let's say that I want to import this txt file into sas data set.

I want to import only observations 6 to 10 

What is the way to do it?

I get an error

WARNING 70-63: The option FIRSTOBS is not valid in this context. Option ignored.

proc export data=sashelp.cars outfile="/path/cars.txt" dbms=dlm replace;
delimiter=',';
run;


proc import datafile ="/path/cars.txt" out=cars_tbl(firstobs=6 obs=10) dbms=dlm replace; delimiter = ','; run;
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LinusH
Tourmaline | Level 20

I think you need to import using a data step to do this.

And there use tha automatic variable _n_ to control you import logic.

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