I use DBMS/COPY, it does the conversion you ask and many other conversions. I use it in batch scripts all the time. Check out their web page at www.conceptual.com.

If you need some work done before you get a chance to get the conversion work done other way, e-mail or call me.

Rob.

On Sun, 15 Dec 1996 20:32:18 GMT, ayiomami@interlog.com (Anthony Ayiomamitis) wrote:

>On Fri, 06 Dec 1996 15:01:09 -0600, lindeman@asdg.enet.dec.com wrote: > > There is a paper in the SUGI 21 (?) proceedings about a macro >called %FLATFILE which will take any SAS dataset as a parm and dump it >out in ASCII format. > > You can accomplish the same very easily through SAS/FRAME and >by accessing the SAS dictionary tables. If interested, let me know. > >Anthony. > >>Hello- >> >>Is there a tool or some sort of programming language/routine (perl?) that >>will export a SAS dataset file into an ASCII data file? I'd like to >>create some sort of script for batch processing some data. Having to go >>into SAS to convert datasets would be a pain. Thanks, Andy >>-------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- >> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet >

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