Many Many Thanks Arthur & Ya, simply great.!! :) Both the solutions worked great for jpeg and jpg images.

My first query to SAS-L & it was good experience. :)

Thanks & Regards, Vasanth.S

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Arthur Tabachneck <art297@rogers.com>wrote:

> Ya, > > The method you suggested doesn't appear to work correctly for jpeg files. > However, it ran quite quickly on my machine in downloading the gif file. > > Art > ------- > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:08:32 -0400, Ya Huang <ya.huang@AMYLIN.COM> wrote: > > >The following code works fine, I can get the sas-l logo downloaded, and > >opened in MS picture manager. What puzzled me is why it took such long > time > >to get it done: > > > >1 filename www url 'http://listserv.uga.edu/images/top-nl.gif' > RECFM=S; > >2 > >3 data _null_; > >4 infile www; > >5 input; > >6 file 'c:\temp\junk.gif' RECFM=F; > >7 put _infile_; > >8 run; > > > >NOTE: The infile WWW is: > > Filename=http://listserv.uga.edu/images/top-nl.gif, > > Local Host Name=V-YHUANG1, > > Local Host IP addr=10.101.100.25, > > Service Hostname Name=listserv.uga.edu, > > Service IP addr=128.192.1.75, > > Service Name=httpd,Service Portno=80,Lrecl=256, > > Recfm=Strea > > > >NOTE: The file 'c:\temp\junk.gif' is: > > Filename=c:\temp\junk.gif, > > RECFM=F,LRECL=256,File Size (bytes)=0, > > Last Modified=27Jun2011:14:04:24, > > Create Time=27Jun2011:12:55:20 > > > >NOTE: 28 records were read from the infile WWW. > > The minimum record length was 230. > > The maximum record length was 256. > >NOTE: 28 records were written to the file 'c:\temp\junk.gif'. > >NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): > > real time 1:33.72 > > cpu time 0.04 seconds > > > > > >On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:51:57 +0530, vasanth s <vasanthz@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > > >>Hello All, > >>I am trying to have a jpeg image from WWW as input and then store it in > my > >>PC. But unable to do so. > >>Tried the below code, > >> > >>filename www url ' > >>http://europe.nokia.com/PRODUCT_METADATA_0/Products/Phones/N-series/N9- > >00/images/nokia_n9-00_black_main-overview.jpg'; > >> > >>data _null_; > >>infile www url recfm=n; > >>length byte $1; > >>input byte $char1.; > >>file 'c:\picture845.jpg' recfm=n; > >>put byte $char1. @; > >>run; > >> > >>The output file c:\picture845.jpg was a 4KB file & unable to open it.. > >>Whereas the original file on the WWW was 25KB. > >> > >>Some other attempts that I have made to approach the above requirement > are, > >>*-> reading HTML data from a website & the code works fine,* > >>Filename www url 'www.yahoo.com'; > >>data _null_; > >>infile www url end=eof; > >>input; > >>file 'c:\html.txt'; > >>put _infile_; > >>run; > >> > >>*-> **Was able to successfully read an image stored locally and then > store > >>it locally in another place, using below code* > >>filename picture 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My > >>Pictures\Sample Pictures\sunset.jpg'; > >>data _null_; > >>infile picture recfm=n; > >>length byte $1; > >>input byte $char1.; > >>file 'c:\picture.jpg' recfm=n; > >>put byte $char1. @; > >>run; > >> > >>Please let me know your thoughts on how to save a picture on the internet > >>into local computer. > >> > >>Thanks for viewing, > >>Vasanth.S >