with the introduction of v8 feature (DSD) for the file statement, this solution may be reduced, at least for the data part.

* If you are confident that none of your character variables could start with an unbalanced " mark, then the _character_ part of the format statement is unnecessary ;

data _null_; file 'myascii.txt' dsd; set t1; put (_all_) ( : ) ; format _numeric_ best.; run;

Nice to get away from that ( +(-1) ) !!

Regards Peter Carwford

Datum: 14.08.2001 18:01 An: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

Antwort an: shiling zhang <shiling99@YAHOO.COM>

Betreff: Re: how can I write ASCII to an External File? Nachrichtentext:

data t1; retain x y z 'a' a b c 1; run;

*output it to a text file with ',' as delimiter. data _null_; file 'myascii.txt' ; set t1; put (_all_) (+(-1) ',') @1 ' '; format _character_ $quote200. _numeric_ best.; run;

You can use the output of proc content as a document for this text file.

Qingqing Xu <xu@aitken.uchicago.edu> wrote in message news:<Pine.GSO.4.05.10108140205210.10162-100000@aitken.uchicago.edu>... > I have a SAS dataset consisting of 3000 observations and 400 variables. I > want to transfer it to Splus. The only way I know is to write the SAS data > into a ASCII file, which is readable to Splus. But how? How can I generate > the ASCII file with all variable names kept? Thanks in advance! > > Qingqing

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