Date:         Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:26:17 -0600
Reply-To:     Alan Churchill <SASL001@SAVIAN.NET>
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From:         Alan Churchill <SASL001@SAVIAN.NET>
Subject:      Re: Saving and reading in SAS output
Comments: To: "Terjeson, Mark (IM&R)" <Mterjeson@RUSSELL.COM>
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Mark,

You left out one thing at the end:

PARSE!!!!...A LOT !!!

;-]

Alan

Alan Churchill
Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies"
www.savian.net


-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Terjeson, Mark (IM&R)
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:18 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Saving and reading in SAS output

Hi Howard,

Here is one way:


    * redirect output window(print) to disk file ; proc printto
print='c:\temp\myoutput.txt' new; run;

    * output something to output window,  ;
    * is currently repointed to disk file ; proc print data=sashelp.class;
run;

    * restore default destinations ;
proc printto;
run;

    * read varying length file back in ; data result(keep=theline);
  length theline $200;
  infile 'c:\temp\myoutput.txt' length=lenvar;
  input @1 theline $varying. lenvar;
run;



Hope this is helpful.


Mark Terjeson
Senior Programmer Analyst, IM&R
Russell Investment Group


Russell
Global Leaders in Multi-Manager Investing






-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Howard
Alper
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:52 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Saving and reading in SAS output


Hi,

  I want to save SAS output (from the output window) as a file, and then
read the output file back into SAS  (really, send data to someone else, who
could read data into SAS.)  When one saves SAS output, do you save it to a
list file, a DAT file, or other option?  Then, given the list or other file,
how can you read it into SAS?  Fyi, if I just double-click on a list file,
the SAS Preview window is activated, but I can't figure out how to open the
Preview window otherwise.

  Thanks in advance,

  Howard Alper