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Q:
How does one read strings in SAS? For instance, if I am reading in a name like Washtenaw County in a pipe delimted file?
A:
Define the length of your variable before you read in the data. In the example below “name” is the field that has county names:
data a;
length name $40;
infile 'test.txt’ dlm='|';
input geoid $ name $ type part2000 part2010 ;