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On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:00:27 -0700, dave crimkey <d_crimkey@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>Thanks.� I'm having other problems with the files as well.� I was trying
>different methods to read them and decided that I'd better try reading
>just one for now.
Good idea.
>So I did that with the following code (listing out
>all the variables to be safe).� Each VAR is a very precise value (about
>22 dec places).
I doubt that you will be able to maintain that precision in SAS.
>If I look at the file in a text editor, the maximum
>length of a record is 3090 but I keep getting the Truncated message
Please post that message (copied from log in context).
>and the last variable VAR129 will not read in.� In addition only half the
>file is reading in.� So I should be reading 300 records in and only 150
>records are coming in.
That's common in the absence of MISSOVER or TRUNCOVER, but rather unusual
otherwise. Are you sure that outcome resulted from the code you show here?
>� I'm not sure what's going on with my infile
> statement or the file itself but I won't be able to read all the files
>in until I can get one file in.
>�
>DATA A;
>INFILE "C:\SasFiles\A_102m_Bx_1.txt" lrecl=3090 DLM='09'x missover dsd;
input var1 - var129; /* is equivalent */
>INPUT VAR1 VAR2 VAR3 VAR4 VAR5 VAR6 VAR7 VAR8 VAR9 VAR10
>VAR11 VAR12 VAR13 VAR14 VAR15 VAR16 VAR17 VAR18 VAR19 VAR20
>VAR21 VAR22 VAR23 VAR24 VAR25 VAR26 VAR27 VAR28 VAR29 VAR30
>VAR31 VAR32 VAR33 VAR34 VAR35 VAR36 VAR37 VAR38 VAR39 VAR40
>VAR41 VAR42 VAR43 VAR44 VAR45 VAR46 VAR47 VAR48 VAR49 VAR50
>VAR51 VAR52 VAR53 VAR54 VAR55 VAR56 VAR57 VAR58 VAR59 VAR60
>VAR61 VAR62 VAR63 VAR64 VAR65 VAR66 VAR67 VAR68 VAR69 VAR70
>VAR71 VAR72 VAR73 VAR74 VAR75 VAR76 VAR77 VAR78 VAR79 VAR80
>VAR81 VAR82 VAR83 VAR84 VAR85 VAR86 VAR87 VAR88 VAR89 VAR90
>VAR91 VAR92 VAR93 VAR94 VAR95 VAR96 VAR97 VAR98 VAR99 VAR100
>VAR101 VAR102 VAR103 VAR104 VAR105 VAR106 VAR107 VAR108 VAR109 VAR110
>VAR111 VAR112 VAR113 VAR114 VAR115 VAR116 VAR117 VAR118 VAR119 VAR120
>VAR121 VAR122 VAR123 VAR124 VAR125 VAR126 VAR127 VAR128 VAR129 ;
>RUN;
[snip]
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