Sas read file

See Accessing Nonstandard Files. You can use these options to do the following:. Multiple members of a PDS can be open for read access at the same time.

If you run SAS in interactive line mode or in noninteractive mode, you can read input from the terminal. These examples illustrate ways to define a terminal file. In the next example, an asterisk is used in place of a physical filename to indicate that the file will be entered from the terminal:. The number of details records can vary from one observation to another. Below is an illustration of a hierarchical file. In the below file the details of each employee under each department is listed.

The first record is the header record mentioning the department and the next record few records starting with DTLS are the details record. To read the hierarchical file we use the below code in which we identify the header record with an IF clause and use a do loop to process the details record.

Code And Create. Hi Neel, you used proc print to create the listing if i got it right. Regards, Milton. Posted PM views In reply to milts. Thanks Milton!

Any way to avoid the following standard SAS system line in the output? What is Bayesian Analysis? Recommended by SAS. For personalized recommendations, sign in with your SAS profile. Discussion stats. In this example, the MOD option is used to append data to the end of an external file:. The OLD option is then used to overwrite the data. A print data set contains carriage-control information also called ASA control characters in column 1 of each line. They do not normally appear on a printout.

A nonprint data set does not contain any carriage-control characters. When you write to a print data set, SAS shifts all column specifications in the PUT statement one column to the right in order to accommodate the carriage-control characters in column 1.

Therefore, if you expect to print an external file, you should designate the file as a print data set either when you allocate it or when you write to it. When you write to a data set that was not designated as a print data set when it was allocated, you can designate it as a print data set in several ways, depending on what you plan to do with the data set.