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- From: lbertoli@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence E Bertolini)
- Subject: Re: Comma delimited output file
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.180742.17267@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Summary: another consideration: missing values vs blanks
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:07:42 GMT
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- I second the motion for a DELIM= option for the FILE stmt.
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- One other consideration: a need to distinguish between "missing" and "blank"
- for character vars. I use SAS to create comma delimited files ready for
- Sybase's bulk copy program; if a character var is missing, and the Sybase
- column allows nulls, I need to write just the delimiter, without a space.
- If the Sybase column does not allow nulls, I need to write a blank, then the
- delimiter. (I use a macro & it works fine; would rather use DELIM=)
-
- I don't know if this capability should be part of DELIM= or a new
- character format; nor do I know how many other packages need to
- distinguish "missing" from "blank".
-