February 2018
Beginner
366 pages
7h 2m
English
Reading Data Values Separated by Delimiters
Reading Comma-Separated Values Files
Reading Data Separated by Other Delimiters
Reading from an Excel Workbook where Column Headings Are Invalid SAS Variable Names
This chapter describes three of the most common methods that you can use to read raw text data using SAS. It also demonstrates how to create SAS data sets from Excel workbooks. If you typically receive data that is already in SAS data sets, you can skip this chapter (unless you are just curious).
One common method of storing data ...