Creating Free-Format Data
The Basics of Creating Free-Format Data
Creating SAS Data Sets from External Files explained how the PUT statement can be used with column
output to write observations from a SAS data set to a raw data file.
The PUT statement can also be used with list output to create free-format
raw data files.
List output is similar
to list input. With list output, you simply list the names of the
variables whose values you want to write. The PUT statement writes
a value, leaves a blank, and then writes the next value.
Syntax, PUT statement
using list output:
PUT variable <:
format>;
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