Date:         Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:44:28 -0600
Reply-To:     Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Exporting a SAS data set to Text file on SAS unix
Comments: To: Ranjhana <ranjhanas@gmail.com>
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You could try PROC EXPORT instead of the datastep... it should work to
export a comma-delimited file.  But Mike's suggestion will work well, and
might be more flexible for you - and is not dissimilar to what PROC EXPORT
actually physically does, I suspect.

-Joe

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Ranjhana <ranjhanas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I used the following code to export a SAS dataset to text file, but i
> am unable to get the header. Can anybody tell me how to get the header
> (Variable names) to the text file ?
>
> Filename out "/home/z19/test_export.txt";
> data _null_;
> set ranj.layout_archive_prodcar;
> file out;
> put (_all_) ('09'x);
> run;
>