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Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:22:58 -0400
Reply-To:   Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
Sender:   "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:   Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:   Re: convert SPSS to SAS

try

format _all_;

to get rid of all formats.

I don't know what SPSS does with formats. In SAS formats are used for CLASS statements in statistic procs to build groups. You should have a look what's in that D27B format. Is it possible to convert it to a SAS format, e.g. by importing it also?

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:08:31 -0400, darren Brust <darrenbrust@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>I used the following code to convert SPSS file to SAS dataset > >PROC IMPORT DATAFILE='temp.sav' >OUT=work.newfilename >DBMS=SAV replace; >RUN; > >but I cannot get the formats loaded. > >the error message: 'ERROR: The format D27B was not found or could not be >loaded.' > >please help!


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