Date:         Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:43:34 -0500
Reply-To:     Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Deleting the First Row in Text Output
Comments: To: AbbeyFN@AOL.COM

data _null_;
  file "c:\xyz.txt";
  set xyz;
  put permno date;
run;

HTH,
Art
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:33:46 -0800, B.Abbey <AbbeyFN@AOL.COM> wrote:

>I have the following data located in work.xyz where 'permno' and
>'date' are the column headers.
>
>permno  date
>10104   20001201
>10107   20010321
>11081   20010709
>11308   20011027
>12060   20020214
>12490   20020604
>13856   20020922
>
>I use the following code to export the data to a text file:
>
>proc export data=xyz
>   outfile='C:\xyz.txt'
>   replace;
>run;
>
>The saved xyz.txt file looks like this:
>
>permno  date
>10104   20001201
>10107   20010321
>11081   20010709
>11308   20011027
>12060   20020214
>12490   20020604
>13856   20020922
>
>I need it so the headers permno and date are removed.  I have
>attempted to use the if _N_ = 1; then delete command but it does not
>work.
>
>Regards,
>
>B.A.