Usage Note 41450: SAS displays Excel mixed column data that has more than 11 digits in scientific notation
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Importing Excel mixed column data, using SAS/ACCESS® Interface to PC Files, can result in scientific notation in SAS. If a value consists of eleven or more numbers, Excel uses the general format and scientific notation is used. This is an Excel limitation because of the way it stores numbers. Excel follows the IEEE 754 specification on how to store and calculate floating-point numbers. Excel therefore stores only fifteen significant digits in a number, and changes digits after the fifteenth place to zeros.
To avoid scientific notation in SAS, you can use TEXTSIZE=32767 with PROC IMPORT. DBMAX_TEXT= is an alias to TEXTSIZE= in later releases and can be used as a LIBNAME or DATA Set option.
PROC IMPORT OUT= mysasdata
DATAFILE= "c:\sastest\longval2.xlsx"
DBMS=EXCEL REPLACE;
SHEET='sheet1$'n;
GETNAMES=yes;
MIXED=yes;
SCANTEXT=YES;
USEDATE=no;
SCANTIME=YES;
Textsize=32767;
RUN;
-or-
LIBNAME myxls "c:\test.xlsx" dbmax_text=32767;
data new;
set myxls.sheetname;
run;
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.2 TS2M3 | |||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.2 TS2M3 | |||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.2 TS2M3 | |||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.2 TS2M3 | |||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |||
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |||
| Type: | Usage Note |
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| Date Modified: | 2010-12-21 17:32:10 |
| Date Created: | 2010-10-29 09:57:11 |