Supplying Information to Create a SAS Data Set
Overview of Creating a SAS Data Set
You supply SAS with
specific information for reading raw data so that you can create a
SAS data set from the raw data. You can use the data set for further
processing, data analysis, or report writing. To process raw data
in a DATA step, you must:
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use an INPUT statement to tell SAS how to read the data
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define the variables and indicate whether they are character or numeric
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specify the location of the raw data
Telling SAS How to Read the Data: Styles of Input
SAS provides many tools for reading raw data into a SAS
data set. These tools include three basic input styles as well as
various format modifiers and pointer controls.
List input is used ...
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