Hi Art, did you use c="" or c=" "? In 9.1.3 on Win XP I see nothing with c=""... Gerhard

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:24:18 -0400, Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET> wrote:

>Paul, > >On SAS 9.1.3, inn a Windows 2003 server environment, it yields: >"123.456","bb"," ","0.456",".","end rec" > >Art >---------- >On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:04:09 -0400, Paul Dorfman <sashole@BELLSOUTH.NET> >wrote: > >>SAS-L, >> >>Reading the SAS doc portion related to DSD/tilde modifier interaction, I >>find >> >>"By default, data values that do not contain the delimiter that you >>specify are not enclosed in quotation marks. However, you can use the >>tilde (~) modifier to force any data value, INCLUDING MISSING VALUES, to >>be enclosed in quotation marks, even if it contains no embedded >delimiter." >> >>Yet, >> >>data _null_ ; >> a = 123.456 ; b = "bb" ; c = "" ; d = .456; e = . ; f = "end rec" ; >> file log dlm = ',' dsd ; >> put ( _all_ ) ( ~ ) ; >>run ; >> >>yields: >> >>"123.456","bb",,"0.456",,"end rec" >> >>which, obvioulsy, leaves the missing values unquoted. Does anyone observe >>any cranial maladroitness on my part? Do I misread the doc and/or miscode >>FILE/PUT? >> >>Kind regards >>------------ >>Paul Dorfman >>Jax, FL >>------------