Richard

I was playing with this a few minutes ago and discovered that you cannot say

dlm= ' ," '

when you specify DSD. The message is

ERROR: Quotes (' or ") have been detected in the delimiter (DLM=) string. Quotes may not be used as delimiter characters when the DSD option is also specified. NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

Nat

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"Richard A. DeVenezia" <rdevenezia@WILDB To LUE.NET> SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Sent by: "SAS(r) cc Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.U Subject GA.EDU> Re: multiple dlm

08/23/2007 08:53 AM

Please respond to "Richard A. DeVenezia" <rdevenezia@WILDB LUE.NET>

Captain wrote: > Hi I have a txt file which has a dlm of "," for most of the > variables. I then have 3 date variables on the same file that use > just a , as the dlm. After these 3 date variables I have 3 payment > variables that also use the , dlm and have a $ to begin the variable. > The file is reading in everything except the 3 date variables > (including the payment variables). > > I need to know a way to read in the file using multiple dlms, I can > not use line input since it is a dlm file.

I don't know if your "," is literal or not.

Try using these infile options DLM=',' DSD DSD allows you to easily read in quoted values.

Infile does not support a multi-character delimitation. When the DLM option has more than one character, each character is utilized as a delimiter. Thus, if you have DLM='","' it would be the same as DLM='",'

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