I am having trouble parsing out an external file that has observations that may or may not be continued on to the next line. Each row (i.e. observation) can have a variable amount of columns (i.e. variables) yet there are some consistent characteristics about the data.
These characteristics include:
- all observations begin in column 2; however, if they continue, the next line, the continued line, begins in column 1.
- the first variable of the observation can be valued a '-'
and in the example below it is the very last record.
- for observations that continue on the next line is there is an ' - ' as the last character string of the first line.
- any variable beginning with the string 'DATA(' and ending with the ')' can have a space delimited character string in between the "DATA(" & the ")". In this situation it should all considered as one charater string and 1 column.
I have a sample of the data records below:
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6
AAA.BBB-.- UID(ABCDCE**A) READ(A) WRITE(A) ALLOC(A)
BBB.CCC-.- UID(ABCDEF*****A123) READ(A) WRITE(A) -
EXEC(A)
CCC.DDD101.E3.- UID(ABCDEF*****ABCDEF) READ(A) -
WRITE(A) ALLOC(A) EXEC(A) DATA(FTP SERVER TO COL)
CCC.DDD101.E3.- UID(ABCDEF*****ABCDEF) READ(A) WRITE(A) -
ALLOC(A) EXEC(A)
AAA.BBB-.- UID(ABCDCE**A) READ(A) WRITE(A) DATA(FTP S1)
BBB.CCC-.- UID(ABCDEF*****A123) READ(A) WRITE(A) EXEC(A)
B1S.B1KA-.- UID(ASB1BP*****AB1KB1P) READ(A) EXEC(A)
B1S.B1KA-.- UID(ASB1BP*****AB1KB2P) READ(A) EXEC(A)
- UID(ABCDEF*****ABCDEF) READ(A) WRITE(A) ALLOC(A)
My goal would be to take the external file with all its variability and parse it out to a fixed length file. All the variable columns would be written to fixed width columns large enough to hold the data and all on one record. I am having trouble with SAS in doing this. I am relatively new to doing something like this with SAS but I know that it can be done. I have tried everything I can thing of to control the variability using missover, truncover, double trailing @, single trailing @, etc. but nothing that I've tried works.
Thanks.
These characteristics include:
- all observations begin in column 2; however, if they continue, the next line, the continued line, begins in column 1.
- the first variable of the observation can be valued a '-'
and in the example below it is the very last record.
- for observations that continue on the next line is there is an ' - ' as the last character string of the first line.
- any variable beginning with the string 'DATA(' and ending with the ')' can have a space delimited character string in between the "DATA(" & the ")". In this situation it should all considered as one charater string and 1 column.
I have a sample of the data records below:
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6
AAA.BBB-.- UID(ABCDCE**A) READ(A) WRITE(A) ALLOC(A)
BBB.CCC-.- UID(ABCDEF*****A123) READ(A) WRITE(A) -
EXEC(A)
CCC.DDD101.E3.- UID(ABCDEF*****ABCDEF) READ(A) -
WRITE(A) ALLOC(A) EXEC(A) DATA(FTP SERVER TO COL)
CCC.DDD101.E3.- UID(ABCDEF*****ABCDEF) READ(A) WRITE(A) -
ALLOC(A) EXEC(A)
AAA.BBB-.- UID(ABCDCE**A) READ(A) WRITE(A) DATA(FTP S1)
BBB.CCC-.- UID(ABCDEF*****A123) READ(A) WRITE(A) EXEC(A)
B1S.B1KA-.- UID(ASB1BP*****AB1KB1P) READ(A) EXEC(A)
B1S.B1KA-.- UID(ASB1BP*****AB1KB2P) READ(A) EXEC(A)
- UID(ABCDEF*****ABCDEF) READ(A) WRITE(A) ALLOC(A)
My goal would be to take the external file with all its variability and parse it out to a fixed length file. All the variable columns would be written to fixed width columns large enough to hold the data and all on one record. I am having trouble with SAS in doing this. I am relatively new to doing something like this with SAS but I know that it can be done. I have tried everything I can thing of to control the variability using missover, truncover, double trailing @, single trailing @, etc. but nothing that I've tried works.
Thanks.
