I have bunch of huge text files in zipped format (.txt.gz). Is it possible to read only column names in SAS from those files.
Please guide me if you have any solution.
Thanks,
Kinjal
@KinjalPatel wrote:
I have bunch of huge text files in zipped format (.txt.gz). Is it possible to read only column names in SAS from those files.
Please guide me if you have any solution.
Thanks,
Kinjal
So if you have file name bigfile.txt.gz the you can use the OBS=1 option on the INFILE statement to just read the first observation.
data headers ;
infile 'bigfile.txt.gz' zip gzip obs=1 dsd dlm=',' ;
length name $32 ;
column+1;
input name @@;
run;
@KinjalPatel wrote:
I have bunch of huge text files in zipped format (.txt.gz). Is it possible to read only column names in SAS from those files.
Please guide me if you have any solution.
Thanks,
Kinjal
So if you have file name bigfile.txt.gz the you can use the OBS=1 option on the INFILE statement to just read the first observation.
data headers ;
infile 'bigfile.txt.gz' zip gzip obs=1 dsd dlm=',' ;
length name $32 ;
column+1;
input name @@;
run;
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