SAS and concatenated mixed data.

[SPhill]

I’ve got a problem, we’ve got a large number of datasets
with different variables in different places which have
been concatenated into one large dataset, what I need to
do is read it all into a datastep and do a proc
summary/tabulate etc. Normally I’d use something like this
for reading in csv files:

DATA A1;
INFILE inf DLM = ',' DSD MISSOVER FIRSTOBS =2 ;
LENGTH prdref £8. sex1 £1. distchan £1. premtype £2. i_prmst £2. agid £7. smkr£1.;
INFORMAT currdta DDMMYY8. dob1a DDMMYY8. ;
INPUT obs1
polref
inrref
covref
prdref
prdvr_no
schno
currdta
dob1a
etc etc …………………

but I can’t as the variables are mixed up in the
concatenated dataset. I’d rather not individually set up
an import procedure for every change of u****** as
there’s loads plus the record length is 4000 so there are
lots of vars as well.

Any suggestions great fully received.


Using JCL & mainframe SAS v8.2.

Example of data:-

U226SU !,SPCODE,POL_NUMBER,AGE_AT_ENTRY,ANNUAL_PREM,SEX,
U226SU *,1,45000040,19,0.00,0,228,1988,0.00,1,1,0.00,0.0
U226SU *,1,45017899,31,0.00,0,225,1988,0.00,1,1,0.00,0.0
U226SU *,1,45034116,24,0.00,0,223,1988,0.00,1,1,0.00,0.0
U226SU *,1,45049865,25,0.00,1,223,1988,0.00,1,1,0.00,0.0
U226SU *,1,45068425,36,0.00,0,223,1988,0.00,1,1,0.00,0.0
U226SU *,1,45073872,54,0.00,0,114,1997,0.00,1,1,0.00,0.0
U226SW !,SPCODE,SALES_CHAN,TERR,AGE_AT_ENTRY,SEX,POL_TER
U226SW *,1,1,1,39,0,21,4,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,55,0,20,3,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,19,0,40,7,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,31,0,29,1,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,28,0,32,6,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,43,1,22,5,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,37,0,23,1,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,41,0,24,3,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,30,0,30,1,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,25,1,35,5,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,34,0,26,2,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,24,1,35,9,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,36,0,24,0,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,29,1,31,6,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00
U226SW *,1,1,1,36,0,24,2,0.00,1,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.00

 

[ChrisW75]

Sorry, I think you're going to have to bite the bullet and write a separate step for each dataset.

Chris
Business Analyst, Code Monkey, Data Wrangler.
SAS Guru.

 

[SPhill]

Yep, I've had to do this, we've got about 16 different formats all concatenated together so I've set up 16 different import procedures in a macro which works o/k, bit of a pain tho.

Anyway thanks for the reply.

SP