The IMPORT Procedure

Example 1: Importing a Delimited External File

Procedure features:

PROC IMPORT statement arguments:

	DATAFILE=
	DBMS=
	OUT=
	REPLACE

Data source statements:

	DELIMITER=
	GETNAMES=

Other features:

PRINT procedure

This example imports the following delimited external file and creates a temporary SAS data set named WORK.MYDATA.

Region&State&Month&Expenses&Revenue
Southern&GA&JAN97&2000&8000
Southern&GA&FEB97&1200&6000
Southern&FL&FEB97&8500&11000
Northern&NY&FEB97&3000&4000
Northern&NY&MAR97&6000&5000
Southern&FL&MAR97&9800&13500
Northern&MA&MAR97&1500&1000

Program

proc import datafile="/myfiles/mydata"

out=mydata

dbms=dlm

replace;

delimiter='&';

getnames=yes; run;

options nodate ps=60 ls=80; proc print data=mydata; run;

SAS Log
The SAS log displays information about the successful import. For this example, PROC IMPORT generates a SAS DATA step, as shown in the partial log that follows.

8 /********************************************************************** 9 * PRODUCT: SAS 10 * VERSION: 8.00 11 * CREATOR: External File Interface - Version 1.1 12 * DATE: 01MAR1999 13 * DESC: Generated SAS Datastep Code 14 * TEMPLATE SOURCE: (None Specified.) 15 ***********************************************************************/ 16 data WORK.MYDATA ; 17 %let _EFIERR_ = 0; /* clear ERROR detection macro variable */ 18 infile '/myfiles/mydata' delimiter = '&' MISSOVER 18 ! DSD lrecl=32767 firstobs=2 ; 19 format Region $8. ; 20 format State $2. ; 21 format Month $5. ; 22 format Expenses best12. ; 23 format Revenue best12. ; 24 informat Region $8. ; 25 informat State $2. ; 26 informat Month $5. ; 27 informat Expenses best32. ; 28 informat Revenue best32. ; 29 input 30 Region $ 31 State $ 32 Month $ 33 Expenses 34 Revenue 35 ; 36 If _ERROR_ then /* ERROR detection */ 37 call symput('_EFIERR_',1); 38 run; NOTE: Numeric values have been converted to character values at the places given by: (Line):(Column). 86:31 NOTE: 7 records were read from the infile '/myfiles/mydata'. The minimum record length was 27. The maximum record length was 28. NOTE: The data set WORK.MYDATA has 7 observations and 5 variables. NOTE: DATA statement used: real time 7.91 seconds cpu time 0.97 seconds -42 rows created in WORK.MYDATA from /myfiles/mydata. NOTE: WORK.MYDATA was successfully created. NOTE: PROCEDURE IMPORT used: real time 1:58.92 cpu time 11.03 seconds

Output
This output lists the output data set, MYDATA, created by PROC IMPORT from the delimited external file.

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