Date:         Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:11:50 -0800
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Subject:      Re: on format of a file with a large number of variables
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Dear Ya,

Thank you for your respons. Then what is the procedure which will
create a ascii file from a sas data file of a large size (>200MB) so
that these variables are in a single row?

Best regarsd,


On 12 $B7n (B15 $BF| (B,  $B8aA0 (B5:47, ya.hu...@AMYLIN.COM (Ya Huang) wrote:
> Depends on what do you mean by 'output'. If you mean to have
> a printout, then you may have run out of luck, since there
> won't been a paper wider enough to hold all those columns.
>
> On the other hand, if you mean to create a ascii file from a
> dataset, I found the easiest way to to open up the dataset
> with SAS viewer, then choose "save as file" from the file menu,
> then choose tab delimited. No programming is needed.
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:30:50 -0800, sasstud...@GMAIL.COM wrote:
> >Hello,
>
> >I have a dataset with a large number of variables and I would like to
> >output the file so that all the variables will be in the same row:
>
> >var1 var2 .... var100 var101 ...
>
> >rather than
>
> >var1 var2 .. var29
>
> >var30......var59
>
> >what options of proc print or what procedures will help me do this?
>
> >Best regards,