Date:         Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:36:34 -0500
Reply-To:     Rob Rohrbough <Rob@ROHRBOUGH-SYSTEMS.COM>
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From:         Rob Rohrbough <Rob@ROHRBOUGH-SYSTEMS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Data Input Packages for SAS?
Comments: To: Talbot Michael Katz <TopKatz@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
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SAS does provide an "Import Wizard" which handles most delimited (comma,
tab, etc.), I believe, even without SAS/ACCESS.  SAS Access, as you mention,
does support a wide variety of formatted files (e.g., from Excel to Oracle -
depending on your license of SAS/Access).  The Import Wizard even lets you
handle fixed-length files if you are willing to define the formats to read
the variables in.

There are file conversion programs avaialable as well (whose names escape me
at the moment - Concentric?) that will translate to SAS dataset format.

HTH,

Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Talbot Michael Katz [mailto:TopKatz@EMAIL.MSN.COM]
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 11:38 AM
> Subject: Data Input Packages for SAS?
>
>
> Hi.
>
> I know that SAS already has impressive capabilities to read many different
> types of incoming files, especially if you have SAS/ACCESS.  But does
> anyone know of package(s) that make it easy / automatic for SAS to read
> fixed-length, variable-length, comma-delimited, and other common, but
> possibly messy filetypes?  Thanks!
>
> --  TMK  --
>