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As far as I understand it, that's what DSD does... perhaps take off the :
from your informats, not sure if they might be causing trouble?
-Joe
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:00 AM, jwc <jwcassell@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to read a pipe-delimited ascii file using the following
> code:
>
> data temp;
> infile 'C:\shp\State_active_memb_200902031517.txt' DLM='|' DSD
> lrecl=300 TRUNCOVER ;
>
> input var01 :$12.
> var02 :$12.
> var03 :$12.
> var04 :$9.
> var05 date11.
> var06 date11.
> var07 date11.
> var08 date11.
> var09 :$1. ;
> run;
>
> Consecutive pipe characters (||) are skipped over instead of being
> read as missing values. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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