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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:19:42 CST
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- Subject: COMMA DELIMITED ASCII FILES
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- I have an ASCII file that is delimited by commas and quotation marks(").
- Numeric and character variables are both separated by commas except
- when a character variable contains commas then the entire text string
- is enclosed in quotation marks. For example,
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- 12,54,67,"Welch,David",34,3,the big dog
-
- Is there an easy way to read a file like this in SAS? There are an
- equal number of variables on each record and all variables are
- ordered, but they are not fixed width.
-
- Thanks in advance,
- David Welch
- Senior Systems Analyst
- Southern Methodist University UDCW @ vm.cis.smu.edu
- (214) 692-2036 dwelch @ sun.cis.smu.edu
-