SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9, Third Edition

Additional Features

Writing Character Strings and Variable Values

You can use a PUT statement to write both character strings and variable values to a raw data file. To write out a character string, simply add a character string, enclosed in quotation marks, to the PUT statement. It's a good idea to include a blank space as the last character in the string to avoid spacing problems.

filename totaldat 'c:\records\junsales.txt'; 
data _null_; 
   set work.totals; 
   file totaldat; 
   put 'Sales for salesrep ' salesrep  
       'totaled ' sales : dollar9.; 
run;

SAS Data Set Work.Totals

Raw Data File Created Using the PUT Statement

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