The Little SAS® Book: A Primer, Third Edition

Chapter 2. Getting Your Data into SAS^®

	“Practice is the best of all instructors.”
	--PUBLIUS SYRUS, CIRCA 42 B.C

	“We all learned by doing, by experimenting (and often failing), and by asking questions.”
	--JAY JACOB WIND

From Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations 13th edition, by John Bartlett, copyright 1955 by Little Brown & Company. Public domain.

From the SAS L Listserv, March 15, 1994. Reprinted by permission of the author.

2.1	Methods for Getting Your Data into SAS	30
2.2	Entering Data with the Viewtable Window	32
2.3	Reading Files with the Import Wizard	34
2.4	Telling SAS Where to Find Your Raw Data	36
2.5	Reading Raw Data Separated by Spaces	38
2.6	Reading Raw Data Arranged in Columns	40
2.7	Reading Raw Data Not in Standard Format	42
2.8	Selected Informats	44
2.9	Mixing ...