Hi,

I am trying to create a text file which would have a structure like:

informations about the file (6 lines, some text I write)

information about obs 1 (6 lines) (from a dataset) information about obs 2 (6 lines) information about obs 3 (6 lines) ... information about last obs (6 lines)

information about the EOF "end"

My problem is to separate the 3 blocks within the same data step. It creates as many blocks as I have observations in my dataset. What I would like is to get the first and the lst blocks only once. I can make 3 different text files and append them manually, but I want something cleaner and more straigthforward.

Here is what my pgm looks like:

DATA _NULL_; SET one; FILE "n:\usagers\jean-p\pedigree\paule\export\cyrillic.dat"; PUT #1 'Name'; PUT #2 'Family #1'; PUT #3 'Alzheimer'; PUT #4 '1'; PUT #5 '1'; PUT #6 'Marker 1';

PUT @1 enfant 8. @10 pere 8. @20 mere 8. @30 sex 8. @35 affected 8. ; * line 1; PUT @1 all1 3. ' / ' @5 all2 3. ; * line 2; PUT @1 nom $15. @20 prenom $15. ; * line 3; PUT @1 ' ' ; * line 4; PUT @1 ' ' ; * line 5; PUT @1 ' ' ; * line 6;

PUT 'END';

RUN;

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