Reading Text File

[Leonoids]

Hello,

I am trying to read the pipe delimited file in which one of the character column is having long description starting from line1 to line3 or line1 to line2.  I am unable to read this in sas dataset. Please help me to resolve the issue.

example:

1009|234|long description in comments

and need to be updated in the sas dataset.

Thank you for uploading data|264,00|345,09|address

1010|235|long description in comments

and need to be updated in the sas dataset|546.08|589|address

Thank you in advance.

[sustagens]

Carriage Return / Multiple Line Break Issue Importing TXT File  

[MCoopmans]

You could read this with RECFM=N which means 'binary' so the datastep will continue reading across lines untill it reaches a delimiter. 
In your example it does not work fully because there seems to be a delimiter missing at the end of the third row, after "adress". If that line would end with a delimiter this simple datastep would do the trick:

data want;
 infile "c:\temp\file.txt" dlm="|" dsd recfm=N;
 input f1 : $10. f2 : $10. comments : $500. ;
run;

with this result:

I had to read all your data as characters since the numbers are not using decimal comma and dots consistently. Is that voluntary ?

[Leonoids]

There is no delimiter at the end of the record. 

[Ksharp]

options compress=yes;
data have;
infile cards length=len;
input temp $varying2000. len;
cards;
1009|234|long description in comments
and need to be updated in the sas dataset.
Thank you for uploading data|264,00|345,09|address
1010|235|long description in comments
and need to be updated in the sas dataset|546.08|589|address
;

data temp;
 set have;
 length x $ 8000;
 retain x;
 x=cats(x,temp);
 if countc(x,'|')=5 then do;output;call missing(x);end;
 drop temp;
run;
data want;
 set temp;
 a1=scan(x,1,'|');
 a2=scan(x,2,'|');
 a3=scan(x,3,'|');
 a4=scan(x,4,'|');
 a5=scan(x,5,'|');
 a6=scan(x,6,'|');
 drop x;
run;

[Ksharp]

Here is an alternative way.

options compress=yes;
data have;
infile cards length=len;
input temp $varying2000. len;
if prxmatch('/^\d+\|\d+/',temp) then group+1;
cards;
1009|234|long description in comments
and need to be updated in the sas dataset.
Thank you for uploading data|264,00|345,09|address
1010|235|long description in comments
and need to be updated in the sas dataset|546.08|589|address
;

data temp;
length x $ 8000;
do until(last.group);
 set have;
 by group;
 x=cats(x,temp);
end;
drop temp;
run;
data want;
 set temp;
 a1=scan(x,1,'|');
 a2=scan(x,2,'|');
 a3=scan(x,3,'|');
 a4=scan(x,4,'|');
 a5=scan(x,5,'|');
 a6=scan(x,6,'|');
 drop x;
run;