Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:02:04 -0500
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From: Pudding Man <pudding.man@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Parsing a complicated data file
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You might want to take a peek at line and column pointers
that can be used with the INPUT statement.
This illustrates one such approach:
data _null_;
policy = 493;
file 'dum.dat' lrecl=132 pad;
put #2 @8 policy 3. @20 'Blind Boy Fuller'
#5 @45 '1415 Aardvark Ln, Scrunch City, OK 99999'
#24;
run;
data disstuff;
infile 'dum.dat' lrecl=132;
input #2 @8 policy 3. @20 name :&$20.
#5 @45 address :&$50.
#24;
put _all_;
run;
That such should be hep'ful ...
Prost,
Puddin'
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On 10/27/05, Kimberly Anne <kimmerz321@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a somewhat complicated text file that I want to parse.
>
> For each observation, there are 24 lines of text that contain the
> information I need, each with a carriage return at the end. On some
> lines, I want to get several pieces of information. On others, I only
> need one piece. On others, I don't want any of the information - I
> just want to skip over them.
>
> I know where the data I want to get at in each line is (i.e. a policy
> number is in position 8 in line 2 and is 3 digits long, a name is in
> position 20 on line 2 and is 20 characters long, an address is in
> position 45 on line 5 and is 50 characters long), but I'm not sure how
> to parse this. I was trying to use an array to grab each line,
> thinking i could just parse each element, but SAS is giving me errors
> when I try to use INPUT with an array.
>
> If anybody has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Thanks!
>
> Kim
>
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