Date:         Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:07:07 EDT
Reply-To:     David Wright <david_20000@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         David Wright <david_20000@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Correction: Summary of "How to Save a generated dataset as .txt
              file?"
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Hi, thanks Michael,

The code of second solution does miss the Output. So it is perfect and not
needed any debug.

thanks,

David
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Hi,

Thanks to all the respondents to "How to Save a generated dataset as .txt
file?" Next I summed up 3 kinds of solutions suggested by over ten persons.

1. FILE--most often proposed--I will adopt this method;
        data _null_;  set tt;
        file "File Name"
        put @1 X  @ 11 E @ 21 Y;
        run;

2. LIBNAME and Data (proposed by Nancy and Michael Thomas)--There might be a
little bit further debug on the followed code.

*  Issue LIBNAME statement for directory where dataset is to be stored;
libname save 'c:\sas\sasdata';
data SAVE.ttt;
  Do I = 1 to 10;
    X = 100*RANUNI(0);
    E = 50*NORMAL(10);
    Y = 5*X + E;
    State=1;
  END;
run;

3. DM ---I guess this is one of the simplest one. Just as David Ward(the
proposor) said, " You will be pleased with the results.  This technique
makes use of SAS's external file interface SCL application, which they have
provided a means of calling in batch (without the wizard)." I agree.

dm "dexport libname.dataset 'c:\temp\temp.txt' replace";
-or-
dm "dexport libname.dataset 'c:\temp\temp.csv' replace";

I hope the above summary will be benificial all the sasers, esp. the
beginner, just like me.

Best,

David

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