Handbook of SAS DATA Step Programming

6 Handbook of SAS

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DATA Step Programming

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18 data desktop.noise1;/*becomes NOISE1.SAS7BDAT in C:\

19 ! Documents and Settings\Desktop */

20 set saslib.noise;

21 run;

NOTE: There were 32 observations read from the data set

SASLIB.NOISE.

NOTE: The data set DESKTOP.NOISE1 has 32 observations and 4

variables.

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1.2.3 Reading a Raw Data File with Fixed Fields

In this book, a raw data le is also referred to as a text le. A raw data le with

xed elds means that the ...