A.K. Lee wrote:

> I have a bunch of dollar delimited files for conversion to SAS datasets. > I've written a small macro code using Proc import with guessing rows=1000 > (needed as some colums have a lot of numerical data with few character > values). It works fine, only issue is that occasionaly a couple of files > are empty (i.e they have column headers but no data values). > > In such a case, I still want empty SAS datasets to be created giving the > variable names. However if there are no datavalues, SAS gives an error such > as this: "Unable to sample external file, no data in first 5 records." > > Thanks very much in advance, > -A

If you have no data records, then how to expect to determine variable type? And if you were somehow to know that some vars are character vars, how would you assign their lengths?

Mark Keintz Wharton Research Data Services