Make sure the data is separated properly into columns. Now you’re at the final stop of the conversion.When you go to Step 2, be sure to select the correct delimiter.When Excel sees that it’s opening a text file, it launches the Text Import Wizard we’re used to using.Now you’ll see a complete list of files including the text file you need to convert.Click the drop down list and select “All Files (*.*)” You must change the file type to see the text files. You don’t see any text files display because Excel defaults to listing Excel files.From the menu bar, select File, Open to see a list of files. Instead of using the tool ribbon function to convert, you should open a text file.You’ll have to follow the alternative process described in this document. However, if you take a rich text format (RTF) file and save it as a text file using Word, this option will not work. Oddly, if you create a text file using a text editor and use tabs as delimiters, this function will work properly. However, you should avoid this because you won’t get the results you expect. Normally, you’d select “Data” from the menu bar, look at the tool ribbon and select importing from a text or CSV file to start the conversion.Open up Excel like you’ve done in the past.* create source text file */įilesystem GB blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on

* putlog just here to see in sample code what gets written to file 'want' */Īnd in case your source text file doesn't have a delimiter and data is just written out positional with blanks then the following code version could deal with that. * read source file 'want' into input buffer and replace the source file delimiter (tab?) with comma */

There is no need to map the data to SAS variables and input source strings into SAS numeric variables. So in your case you could simply read the source text file into the input buffer, exchange the source delimiter with a comma and then write the result straight back to the output file.

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