Date:         Mon, 9 Aug 2004 12:08:49 -0700
Reply-To:     Rune Runnestoe <rune@FASTLANE.NO>
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From:         Rune Runnestoe <rune@FASTLANE.NO>
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Subject:      Re: merging datasets to a file
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Gary Ross <gary_ross@mgic.com> wrote in message news:<41178338.CCD0C9AD@mgic.com>...

> You could try:
>
> put _numeric_ _character_ ;
>
> Be advised, though, you lose formatting for the character variables
> unless they are all the same length (not likely), but:
>
> put _numeric_ 8. _character_ $10. ;
>
> should work.

It doesn't seem to work, but thanks anyway. put _numeric_ provokes an
error message in the log. put _character_ or put _character_ $10
doesn't write any data to the file.

But - the problem is solved. Paul Choate advised me to try put
(_all_)(:) or put (_all_) ('09'x):

So here is the code:
%let lib = dev;
data &lib..all;
  set &lib..class2 &lib..class3;
  file 'd:\concatenated.dat';
  put   (_all_) (:);
run;

and that works fine. I prefer (:) to ('09'x) because it looks better.
I don't know what (:) means or why it works, but that doesn't bother
me so much as long as it works :-).

Regards
Rune