Hi all -
This is a relatively simple question, but I for the life of me - and it's embarassign - cannot find a solution (yes, a newbie here).
I'm importing lists of order ids (a numerical variable) to work with in SAS. However, when reading in the files, I get an error message. Researching the lists, I realized some of the variables contain a character value - "NULL". I just cannot seem to find a way to delete values with "NULL" when reading in the file. I prefer to do this through SAS than manually through Excel in order to minimize possible errors. My question is - is there, when reading in numerical value, a way to delete values that don't meet the criteria (character values)? Here's the code I use to read in the file.
data ds_name;
infile '/export/SAS/users/jones//list_files//ds_name.txt'
delimiter='09'x MISSOVER DSD lrecl=32767 firstobs=1;
informat order_id 11.;
format order_id 11.;
input order_id;
if order_id = . then delete;
run;
I also tried the following but got a log filled with error messages, and know it's because SAS is reading the values as numerical data:
data ds_name;
infile '/export/SAS/users/jones//list_files//ds_name.txt'
delimiter='09'x MISSOVER DSD lrecl=32767 firstobs=1;
informat order_id 11.;
format order_id 11.;
input order_id;
if order_id = . then delete;
if order_id = 'NULL' then delete;
run;
Any help is appreciated! If you have any questions and or need clarification, don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks in advance.
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