Other Delimiters Files that have other delimiters such as spaces or semicolons are also known as delimited text files or delimited files. Be aware of these behaviors when using the wizards and procedures to import or export data in delimited files. When data values are enclosed in quotation marks, delimiters within the value are treated as character data. Quotation marks are removed from character values. Two consecutive delimiters indicate a missing value.
A delimiter can be specified as one or more characters. The delimiter can be in binary form. As the IMPORT procedure reaches the end of the current input data row, variables without any values are set to missing. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. All forum topics Previous Next. Go to Solution.
Posted AM views. Hello, I am hoping there are some solutions to my problem. Thank you in advance for your help. Accepted Solutions. Posted AM views In reply to corsan. Tags: Solution. The data values are separated by commas. In a CSV-type file, each line can represent one of these items:. A tab-delimited file is a form of delimited file. The data values are separated by control characters that represent the TAB key.
The data values form columns of a database table. The columns can be exported to a database table. Files that have other delimiters such as spaces or semicolons are also known as delimited text files or delimited files. Be aware of these behaviors when using the wizards and procedures to import or export data in delimited files.
When data values are enclosed in quotation marks, delimiters within the value are treated as character data. If you prefer not to overwrite the newly imported SAS dataset, you can simply remove the replace option. In the output data shown partially below, you will see that extra row has now been removed:. Now in the output data, all the records will be found in the dataset itself, but the heading names will have generic names from VAR1 up to VAR15 in this case, since there are 15 columns:.
Space-delimited text files are yet another common file type you may encounter that you would like to import into SAS. In this example import, there are rows of data. The run time will of course depend on your environment, the number of records and the number of variables found in your data. By using Data Step code, the variable names, lengths and types can be manually specified at the time of import.
The advantage is that this allows you to format the dataset exactly the way you desire as soon as it is created in SAS, rather than having to make additional modifications later on. First, as with any SAS Data Step code, you need to specify the name and location for the dataset you are going to create. After the INFILE statement, the simplest way to ensure that your variable names, lengths, types and formats are specified correctly is to use a format statement for each variable.
After an appropriate format has been assigned to each variable, the variables that you would like to import should be listed in order after an INPUT statement. By simply copying and pasting this code from your log into your SAS program, you can now use this code as a template to start your Data Step code, modifying it as needed to adjust variable names, types and lengths. Sign In.
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