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October 22, 2008
In case you were ever wondering
Today I had to convert a SAS data file (formatted in sas7bdat) into a CSV format. For a bunch of annoying reasons I couldn't get the data into a computer with SAS to export it into a text format so I could work with it in my favorite applications. To make it worse, my work computer is a linux machine.
I found a usable solution. On a tip from devshed.com I installed the SAS viewer for windows using Wine. I had to choose the older version ( SAS System Viewer Release 8.2.1) because the newest version used the the .net framework. It installed and ran without a hitch.
Just open the file using File-Open. Then choose File-Save As Text and choose your favorite text format. That's it. All and all pretty easy and everything worked the first time.
Posted by OneEyedMan at October 22, 2008 4:29 PM
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