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nnthieu
Fluorite | Level 6

Truncation of character variables to length 8 when I get csv file from website using proc http. When i set $12. to variable then it read some characters from the next column to. Thanks for help.

 

My code:

 

filename tempurl TEMP;

proc http
url= "https://s3.amazonaws.com/talent-assets.datacamp.com/product_sales.csv"
method="get"
out=tempurl ;
run;

/* Import the data from the URL into a SAS dataset */
data work.sales;
infile tempurl dlm =',' dsd firstobs=2 truncover ; /* Set delimiter and skip header row */
input week $ sales_method $ customer_id $ nd_sold revenue
years_as_customer nb_site_visits state $ ;
run;

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nnthieu
Fluorite | Level 6

My code: 

filename tempurl TEMP;

proc http
url= "https://s3.amazonaws.com/talent-assets.datacamp.com/product_sales.csv"
method="get"
out=tempurl ;
run;

/* Import the data from the URL into a SAS dataset */
data work.sales;
infile tempurl dlm =',' dsd firstobs=2 truncover ; /* Set delimiter and skip header row */
input week $ sales_method $ customer_id $ nd_sold revenue
years_as_customer nb_site_visits state $ ;
run;

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