Are you familiar with special input delimiters? How are they
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Are you familiar with special input delimiters? How are they used?..

Answer / madhu

special delimiters are dlm and dsd,missover.

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Are you familiar with special input delimiters? How are they used?..

Answer / ganesh

dsd and dlm='' are the special delimiters, these are used
in the infile /file statements, this is very flexible to
instructs sas to read and print the datavalues.

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Are you familiar with special input delimiters? How are they used?..

Answer / jahnavi

delimiters are special characters which delimits data values.
dsd and missover are not delimiters.

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Are you familiar with special input delimiters? How are they used?..

Answer / santhi swaroop

DELIMITRS ARE THE SPECIAL CHARACTERS THET HAD BEEN GIVEN
IN THE DATA .

DELIMETERS ARE MOST SENSITIVE.

FOR EX:(, " ') AND MANY MORE.

SYNTAX

DATA SANTHI;
"PATH "DLM=" ," ;
INPUT ID NAME$ AGE SAL;
RUN;


HERE , WAS THE DELIMETER

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