I'm using a remote access SAS system and need to write a small SAS dataset to the log or listing file, and then read this output back into SAS on my local system with minimal manual editing. The data are (almost) all numeric. One option is to use proc tabulate (or print or report), with appropriate form characters to give comma deliminated output. This gives a nice compact file which can be easily read in as csv, but gets messy when there are many variables and they spill past the 256 character limit. Another might be to use 'put _all_'. A bit voluminous, but it can handle many variables. Is there any easy way to read this output back into a SAS dataset? Any other suggestions?
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