Date:         Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:03:27 -0800
Reply-To:     Cassell.David@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV
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From:         "David L. Cassell" <Cassell.David@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: reading a matrix with character values with SAS/IML
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Philippe.Guiblin@ONS.GOV.UK wrote:
> Does anyone know how to read a sas-dataset containing both numeric and
character values within sas iml?
>
> I have used the lines below but sas/iml only reads the numeric
variables of the sas-dataset mat1and put it
> into mat1.
> /*************/
> proc iml;
>
> use a.mat1;
> read all into mat2;
> /*************/

You don't really want to read numeric and character variables into one
matrix, do you?  IML assumes the matrix is one or the other, not both.
Try something like this instead:

read all var _num_  into mat2;
read all var _char_ into mat3;

HTH,
David
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David Cassell, CSC
Cassell.David@epa.gov
Senior computing specialist
mathematical statistician