| Date: | Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:38:09 -0500 |
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| Reply-To: | JimS <jimandsu@YAHOO.COM> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | JimS <jimandsu@YAHOO.COM> |
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| Organization: | AOL Time Warner |
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| Subject: | Reading a text file into SAS |
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| Content-Type: | text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed |
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Happy Monday,
I'm attempting to read a text file into sas. The problem I'm having is
that the columns do not always line up and there's a lot of extra
information I don't need. I would like SAS to read in for 10 chars after
one delimiter (i.e. '(' ) and then read for 5 chars after the next
delimiter (i.e. ':'). Is this possible? I didn't see anything in the
online docs for this.
Also, does a delimiter have to be one character? (i.e. could it be '**' ?)
Many thanks for any info or any potential work-arounds.
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