| The ACCESS Procedure for PC Files |
Changes the expected data types
of SAS variables.
| Valid: |
for DIF, WK1, WK3, WK4, Excel 4, Excel 5, and
Excel 95 file formats under Windows operating environments
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TYPE <'column-identifier-1'>= C |
N...<'column-identifier-n'>= C | N;
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SAS data sets have two data types: character (C) and
numeric (N). Spreadsheet files have the same two data types: character (for
labels and formula strings) and numeric (for numbers and formulas). Changing
the default data type of a SAS variable in a descriptor file also changes
its associated default format in the loaded file.
If you omit the TYPE statement, the database field types
are generated from the PC files data types. You can change as many database
field types as you want in one TYPE statement.
This statement is not available for use with DBF
files.
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