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Next Presentation: Presenter: Arthur Tabachneck Copy and Paste from Word or Excel to SAS Art holds a PhD from Michigan State University, has been a SAS user since 1974, is president of the Toronto Area SAS Society and has received such recognitions as the SAS Customer Value Award (2009), SAS-L Hall of Fame (2011), SAS Circle of Excellence (2012) and, in 2013, was recognized as being the first SAS Discussion Forum participant to be awarded more than 10,000 points

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Presenter: Arthur Tabachneck

Copy and Paste from Word or Excel to SAS

Art holds a PhD from Michigan State University, has been a SAS user since 1974, is president of the Toronto Area SAS Society and has received such recognitions as the SAS Customer Value Award (2009), SAS-L Hall of Fame (2011), SAS Circle of Excellence (2012) and, in 2013, was recognized as being the first SAS Discussion Forum participant to be awarded more than 10,000 points

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Copy and Paste from Word or Excel to SAS

Arthur TabachneckThornhill, ON

CanadaMatt Kastin

Penn Valley, PA

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Suppose you have data in an Excel workbook

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or a table in a Word Document

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and you had a one-time needto import the data into a SAS dataset

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you have SAS/Access interface to PC filesyou don't have a 32/64 bit compatibility issue

and

then you could do it using PROC IMPORT:

proc import out= work.want datafile= "c:\orsales.xlsx" dbms=xlsx replace;run;

if the data are in an Excel workbook andyour SAS version supports Excel 2010 and

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your SAS version doesn't support Excel 2010

you don't have SAS/Access Interface to PC files

but, what if:

you keep running into 32/64 bit compatibility issues

and/or

and/oryou need more control over formats, informats or variable names

and/or

the table is in something other than Excel (e.g., Microsoft Word or a web page)

and/or

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a simple solution?

a datastep that uses the clipboard access method

gives you total control over all formats and informats

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if only if it worked that way, but ..

you can't include notab and lrecl options with the method

won't work if any records have more than 256 characters

will fail if there are any missing cells in the data

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but the Clipboard Access Method will work as follows:

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How it worksOpen the workbook in Excel1

Press Ctrl-A, then press Ctrl-C2

selects all of the workbook's cells

copies the selected cells to your computer's clipboard

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thenRun a datastep in SAS3

filename clippy clipbrd;data orsales_short; attrib Quarter label='Quarter' length=8 informat = yyq6. format=yyq6. Product_Group label='Group' length=$ 25 informat= $25. format=$25. Quantity label='Number of Items' length=8 informat=6. format= 6. Profit label='Profit in USD' length=8 informat=12. format=12.2 Field163 label='Short' length=$ 163 informat=$163. format= $163.; infile clippy missover firstobs=2; input;_infile_ = transtrn( trim( _infile_ ) , ' ' , '09'x );  quarter = input( scan( _infile_ , 1 , '09'x ,'m') , yyq6. ) ; product_group = scan( _infile_ , 2 , '09'x ,'m') ; quantity = input( scan( _infile_ , 3 , '09'x ,'m') , 6. ) ; profit = input( scan( _infile_ , 4 , '09'x ,'m') , 12. ) ; field163 = scan( _infile_ , 5 , '09'x ,'m') ;run;filename clippy clear;

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Open the Word file1

Click on the table move handle (i.e., ) 2

Press Ctrl-C3

Works for tables copied from either Word or Excel

selects all of the table's cells

copies the selected cells to your computer's clipboard

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Works for tables copied from either Word or Excelthen just run the same SAS code

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won't work if any record contains more than 256 characters

Works for tables copied from either Word or Excel

one alternative for longer records, but only for tables copied from Excel and only on systems that can use DDE:

filename clippy dde 'clipboard';data orsales; infile clippy lrecl=400 dsd notab missover dlm='09'x firstobs=2; informat long_field $char327.; informat quarter yyq6.; format quarter YYQ6.; informat product_group $char24.; input quarter product_group quantity profit long_field;run;filename clippy clear;

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data want; attrib _inline_ length = $ 32767 Quarter label = 'Quarter' length = 8 informat = yyq6. format = yyq6. Product_Group label = 'Product Group' length = $ 24 informat = $24. format = $24. Quantity label = 'Number of Items' length = 8 informat = 6. format = 6. Profit label = 'Profit in USD' length = 8 informat = 12. format = 12.2 field163 label = 'Short Field' length = $ 163 informat = $163. format = $163. ; keep quarter product_group quantity profit field163; rc = filename( 'clippy' , ' ' , 'clipbrd' ); if ( rc ne 0 ) then link err; fid = fopen( 'clippy' , 's' , 32767 , 'V' ); if ( fid eq 0 ) then link err;

A method that works with both Word and Excel, on all systems, and for records with more than 256 characters

do _n_=1 by 1 while( fread( fid ) = 0 ); rc = fget( fid , _inline_ , 32767 ); _inline_ = transtrn( trim( _inline_ ) , ' ' , '09'x ); if _n_=1 then continue; quarter = input( scan( _inline_ , 1 , '09'x ) , yyq6.,'m') ; product_group = scan( _inline_ , 2 , '09'x,'m' ) ; quantity= input( scan( _inline_ , 3 , '09'x ) , 6.,'m' ) ; profit = input( scan( _inline_ , 4 , '09'x ) , 12.,'m' ) ; field163= scan( _inline_ , 5 , '09'x,'m' ) ; output; end; rc = fclose( fid ); rc = filename( 'clippy' ); stop; err: do; m = sysmsg(); put m; stop; end;run;

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three methods were presented for copying and pasting from Excel workbooks and Word tables

only one method, the Clipboard Access Method using functions, worked in all cases:

Summary

with both Excel and Word

with record lengths greater than 256 characters

without being operating system specificwith various combinations of missing data

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Questions?

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Your comments and questions

are valued and encouragedContact the Authors

Arthur Tabachneck, Ph.D.Vice President, The CatalogThornhill, [email protected]

Matt KastinI-Behavior, Inc.Penn Valley, [email protected]