Methods of Exporting Data to ASCII or EBCDIC - sasCommunity.org
Methods of Exporting Data to ASCII or EBCDIC - sasCommunity.org
Methods of Exporting Data to ASCII or EBCDIC - sasCommunity.org
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<strong>Methods</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Exp<strong>or</strong>ting</strong> <strong>Data</strong><br />
3) DATA STEP<br />
The datastep <strong>of</strong>fers all users <strong>of</strong> the SAS System a method <strong>of</strong> exp<strong>or</strong>ting<br />
inf<strong>or</strong>mation from the SAS System in<strong>to</strong> an external file. However, when exp<strong>or</strong>ting<br />
data from the SAS System you may encounter a problem <strong>of</strong> embedded blanks<br />
within the variables in the SAS dataset. To help the target application imp<strong>or</strong>t the<br />
data successfully a CSV (Comma Separated Values) f<strong>or</strong>mat style could be<br />
selected.<br />
Unf<strong>or</strong>tunately this method f<strong>or</strong> exp<strong>or</strong>ting data will only exp<strong>or</strong>t the ‘data’<br />
p<strong>or</strong>tion <strong>of</strong> the SAS dataset, hence the column headings will not be passed<br />
f<strong>or</strong>ward <strong>to</strong> the target application.<br />
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