| Reading Raw Data in Fixed Fields |
| Lesson
Overview |
| Introduction
Raw data can be organized in several different ways. |
| This external file contains data that is arranged in columns or fixed fields. You can specify a beginning and ending column for each field. |
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| However, this external file contains data that is free-format, meaning data that are not arranged in columns. Notice that the values for a particular field do not begin and end in the same columns |
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| How your data is organized determines which input style
you should use to read the data. SAS software provides three primary input
styles: column, formatted, and list input. This lesson teaches you how to
use column or formatted input to read data that is arranged
in fixed fields.
This lesson contains 33 pages and takes approximately 45-60 minutes to complete. |
| Objectives
In this lesson you learn to
Before taking this lesson, you should have completed the following lessons Introduction to SAS Programming Creating SAS Data Sets Reading Various Types of Raw Data |
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