I will also go over the problems I had while running it, and how I …
You can view any of your SAS datasets by finding them in the Explorer window. %PDF-1.4 %���� 0000017345 00000 n format.
I'm always working to learn new things and become a better analyst. 24 command = "dir h:\*.xlsx /b""; 25 infile dummy pipe filevar=command end=eof truncover; 26 do i = 1 by 1 while(not eof); ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order. 0000002499 00000 n Syntax to add variable labels, value labels, set variable types, and compute several recoded variables used in later tutorials. You can read more about installing and using the PC files server here. Using data for good, to have a positive social impact is important to me. THANK YOU!!!! libname exbk excel 'C:\Projects\Table.xls' ver=2002; DATA SAS_file; Import Excel Spreadsheet Data into SAS I’m using SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1; as far as I can tell the wizard has not changed much from earlier releases so you should be able to follow along. It should look like something similar to below. data _null_; command = "your-dir-and the rest""; infile dummy pipe filevar=command end=eof truncover; do i = 1 by 1 while(not eof); input; put _infile_; Here is the log after running the code. As Excel files often contain multiple worksheets, we believe %xl2sas is a flexible and user-friendly tool that has wide applicability for the importing of Excel to SAS. In this post, I will go over one of the simpler methods I found online. 0000004870 00000 n BR Dingdang (there are two forward slashes here, but SYMBOLGEN Macro variable FPATH resolves shows correct path. The %put statements will print the contents of the macro variables to your log so you can make sure they contain what you expect. 0000006624 00000 n I think because the file names have spaces in them, Mathematical Optimization, Discrete-Event Simulation, and OR, SAS Customer Intelligence 360 Release Notes.
The steps used for that version of SAS do not work in 64-bit SAS. dictionary.tables is something created during each SAS session with information about all of your datasets and libraries. I ran into my first problem here. Get all the file list in the directory through "pipe". The default is NO, which means that numeric *; * data will be imported as missing values in a character *; * column. MPRINT(FILEINPUT): range="Sheet1$A1:H518"; ERROR: Physical file does not exist, /SHARED/MCL_Team/MCL_1117//xyz_November.xlsx.
You can determine if you have the 32-bit or 64-bit version of SAS by examining the contents of the Log window when you first open SAS. Thanks -, The following code runs on both SAS and SAS EG, PROC IMPORT OUT= WANT DATAFILE= "H:\file1.xlsx". format for MS Access date/time fields. 0000001216 00000 n ok. found the problem. 0000004530 00000 n Note that in the SET statement, the n before the semicolon is not a typo. xref But anyway, here is the first part of the code I ran: After you run the above code, you will see a “MYLIB” library if you look at the list of your active libraries in the SAS explorer window. 0000012799 00000 n There are tons of solutions on here regarding this problem. 0000010252 00000 n But let’s look a little closer. Now you need to tell SAS where to find the file you want to import. But if that is too difficult, I hope to have multiple converted SAS files so that I …
If there had been a problem with the import, a Warning or Error would have appeared instead. If you notice that some characters in your string variables are being corrupted, try adding UNICODE=YES to your LIBNAME PCFILES statement. Run the following and post the result. %%EOF
%macro impt(filename,i); proc import DATAFILE="&filename" OUT=XL&i DBMS=XLSX REPLACE; run; %mend impt;data _null_; command = "/usr/bin/ls ~/*.xlsx"; infile dummy pipe filevar=command end=eof truncover; do i = 1 by 1 while(not eof); input path $128. Once I renamed my sheets (using this VBA code), everything worked for me. Again, welcome to DataGym Center. Also look at help for DIR so that it does not display any "extra stuff" you don't need.'. informat, Some string variables may be truncated, since their width exceeds the default length for string variables. SAS File Server installed. These methods of importing or creating data can give you greater control over how to read variables (the informats), how to write the variables (the formats), how to parse the data (delimited, aligned, repetition, etc. 0 However, when I tried to run the code that way, SAS produced the following error message: “ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.”. Ah SAS, you are forever enigmatic… Eventually, I figured out that SAS was mad because every sheet in my Excel workbook had a name starting with a number. Many thanks. For MS Excel, This *; * applies to all character data type columns. I will also go over the problems I had while running it, and how I solved them. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. You can check what version of SAS you have by examining the Log window when you first launch SAS. Controls the largest length of a text string imported *; * used in conjunction with scantext *; * 14. this is the parameter that adds a character to the front *; * of the dataset if the sheet starts with a number which is *; * illegal in SAS dataset naming conventions by default it is *; * set to sas_ *; * 15 Call the drop routine to strip out empty xls files *; * 16. Use macro loop to import excel files in the list. Some are quite long and confusing. The last step allows you to save the statements that SAS generates while executing the Import Wizard into an Editor file.
Usedate Yes or No - Default is YES *; * specifies whether to use DATE.
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Which Excel files that are used, are filled in by my client.