Skip to Main Content
SAS Data Integration Studio 4.9
book

SAS Data Integration Studio 4.9

by SAS Documentation
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
808 pages
25h 30m
English
SAS Institute
Content preview from SAS Data Integration Studio 4.9
Using a Format File to Register a Fixed-Width
External File
Problem
You want to use a fixed-width external file in a SAS Data Integration Studio job. You
also want to minimize the amount of column metadata that you must manually specify
for the external file.
Solution
Create an external format file that specifies the column metadata for the external data
file. In SAS Data Integration Studio, run the fixed-width external file wizard and specify
both the data file and the format file. The wizard uses the format file to register the
column metadata for the data file. This reduces the need to manually specify column
metadata for the data file.
An external ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using SAS Studio in the Cloud

A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using SAS Studio in the Cloud

Ron Cody

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781629593098