Date:         Thu, 9 Oct 1997 14:14:14 PDT
Reply-To:     Melvin Klassen <KLASSEN@UVVM.UVIC.CA>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Melvin Klassen <KLASSEN@UVVM.UVIC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Q: creating a comma delimited ASCII file

Tjen-Sien Lim <limt@MARS.STAT.WISC.EDU> writes:
>Is there any option in the FILE or PUT statements to create a comma
>delimited ASCII file?
 
Not in the 'FILE' statement in Version 6 of SAS.
 
However, the 'PUT' statement can be exploited:
 
   DATA _NULL_;
      X1=123; X2=-45.6; Y=123456789123412341232343;
      BACK = -1; COMMA = ','; SEMI=';';
 
      PUT X1 +(BACK) COMMA +(BACK)
          X2 +(BACK) COMMA +(BACK)
          Y  +(BACK) SEMI;
 
which gives:
 
 123,-45.6,1.2345679E23;