These examples appear in Chapter 9 of The Little SAS Book: A Primer, Fourth Edition.

Before you run the examples, open the zip file under the Downloads tab. Using the list below, create the folders and copy the data files so that the data are available during your SAS session.

Create the folder c:\MyRawData and copy these files to it:

            
   Address.dat          IceCreamSales.dat         Shakespeare.dat      
   Admit.dat            IceCreamSales2.dat        Shoe.dat             
   AllScores.dat        Lengths.dat               Shoesales.dat        
   Artists.dat          Library.dat               South.dat             
   Baseball.dat         LibraryBooks.dat          Speed.dat              
   Basketball.dat       Mag.dat                   Survey.dat             
   Boats2.dat           Mens5000.dat              Temperature.dat      
   Boats.dat            Mountains.dat             Temps.dat             
   Books.dat            Movies.dat                ToadJump.dat         
   Bus.dat              NatPark.Dat               Tomatoes.dat          
   Candy.dat            NewAdmit.dat              Traffic.dat          
   Cars.dat             North.dat                 Train.dat             
   Choc.dat             Olympic1500.dat           Transpos.dat         
   Chocolate.dat        OnionRing.dat             TropicalSales.dat        
   Chocsales.dat        Onions.dat                UsedCars.dat         
   Coffee.dat           OrdersQ3.dat              Walk.dat             
   Criterium.dat        Parks.dat                 WBRK.dat             
   CustAddress.dat      Picbooks.dat              Zoo.dat                
   Disc.dat             Precipitation.dat                                  
   Exercise.dat         President.dat             Bands.csv             
   Flowers.dat          Pumpkin.dat               Bands2.csv             
   Games.dat            Records.dat               Women.csv            
   Garden.dat           Scores.dat                                     
   Home.dat             SeaLife.dat                                     
                                                                       
 

Create the folder c:\MyFiles and copy this file to it: Baseball.xls

Create the folder c:\MyWebLogs and copy this file to it: dogweblogs.txt

Create the folder c:\MyExcelFiles and copy these files to it: Baseball.xls, OnionRing.xls

Create the folder c:\MyData to store files when you run examples

Create the folder c:\MyHTML to store files when you run examples

Create the folder c:\MyHTMLFiles to store files when you run examples

Create the folder c:\MyPDFFiles to store files when you run examples

Create the folder c:\MyRTFFiles to store files when you run examples

Create the folder c:\MySASLib and copy this file to it: TropicalSales.dat

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Section 9.3

First Program

 
LIBNAME travel 'c:\MySASLib';
DATA travel.golf;
   INFILE 'c:\MyRawData\Golf.dat';
   INPUT CourseName $18. NumberOfHoles Par Yardage GreenFees;
RUN;

Second Program

LIBNAME travel 'c:\MySASLib';
* Create Tab-delimited file;
PROC EXPORT DATA = travel.golf OUTFILE = 'c:\MyRawData\Golf.txt' REPLACE;
RUN;

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Section 9.4

First Program

LIBNAME travel 'c:\MySASLib';
DATA travel.golf;
   INFILE 'c:\MyRawData\Golf.dat';
   INPUT CourseName $18. NumberOfHoles Par Yardage GreenFees;
RUN;

Second Program

 
LIBNAME travel 'c:\MySASLib';
* Create Microsoft Excel file';
PROC EXPORT DATA=travel.golf OUTFILE = 'c:\MyExcel\Golf.xls' REPLACE;
RUN;

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Section 9.5

First Program

 
LIBNAME travel 'c:\MySASLib';
DATA travel.golf;
   INFILE 'c:\MyRawData\Golf.dat';
   INPUT CourseName $18. NumberOfHoles Par Yardage GreenFees;
RUN;

Second Program

LIBNAME travel 'c:\MySASLib';
DATA _NULL_;
   SET travel.golf;
   FILE 'c:\MyRawData\Newfile.dat';
   PUT CourseName 'Golf Course' @32 GreenFees DOLLAR7.2 @40 'Par ' Par;
RUN;

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Section 9.6

First Program

 
LIBNAME travel 'c:\MySASLib';
ODS CSV FILE='c:\MyCSVFiles\golfinfo.csv'; 
PROC PRINT DATA = travel.golf;
   TITLE 'Golf Course Information';
RUN;
OSD CSV CLOSE;

Second Program

LIBNAME travel 'c:\MySASLib';
ODS HTML FILE='c:\MyHTMLFiles\golfinfo.html'; 
PROC PRINT DATA = travel.golf NOOBS;
   TITLE 'Golf Course Information';
RUN;
ODS HTML CLOSE;

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Section 9.7

LIBNAME sports 'c:\MySASLib';
DATA sports.golflinux(OUTREP=LINUX_32);
  SET sports.golf;
RUN;

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The sample is authored by Lora D. Delwiche and Susan J. Slaughter.
Their book The Little SAS Book: A Primer, Fourth Edition is available for sale in our online bookstore.

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Section 9.3, Output
                                           
CourseName          NumberOfHoles   Par  Yardage   GreenFees
Kapalua Plantation  18              73   7263      125
Pukalani            18              72   6945      55
Sandlewood          18              72   6469      35
Silversword         18              71             57
Waiehu Municipal    18              72   6330      25
Grand Waikapa       18              72   6122      200

Download the zip file in order to run these samples - zip file.

This sample shows you how to export data to other applications, export SAS data sets to other operating environments, use the Export Wizard, use the Export Procedure, write raw data files with the DATA Step, and write delimited and HTML files with ODS.

Type:

Sample

Date Modified:	2009-01-29 17:21:35
Date Created:	2009-01-28 13:53:55

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	Host	SAS Release
			Starting	Ending
SAS System	Base SAS	z/OS
		OpenVMS VAX
		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64
		OS/2
		Microsoft Windows 95/98
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
		Microsoft Windows NT Workstation
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional
		Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
		Windows Vista
		64-bit Enabled AIX
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX
		64-bit Enabled Solaris
		ABI+ for Intel Architecture
		AIX
		HP-UX
		HP-UX IPF
		IRIX
		Linux
		Linux for x64
		Linux on Itanium
		OpenVMS Alpha
		OpenVMS on HP Integrity
		Solaris
		Solaris for x64
		Tru64 UNIX