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Importing .sas into SAS as text

Is there a way to import the actual code of a .sas file into SAS without changing the base file to a .txt. I’m trying to make a tool to search through lines of code for certain keywords.

Solution

  • You can use infile statement:

    filename sastext "\test.sas";

data sastext;
   infile sastext truncover;
   input str $32000.;
run;

filename sastext clear;

    test.sas:

    data _null_;
   put "TEST";
run;

    dataset sastext:

    +-----------------+
|       str       |
+-----------------+
| data _null_;    |
| put "TEST";     |
| run;            |
+-----------------+