The SAS System has numerous capabilities to store, analyze, report, and present data. However, those features are useless unless that data is stored in, or can be accessed by, the SAS System. This presentation includes an introduction to the INPUT and INFILE statements, which combine to provide a simple, yet powerful, method to pass data into the SAS System. Matters to be addressed are reading fixed and variable length files, .CSV files, in-stream data, informats, and more.

Andrew T. Kuligowski has been a SAS user for … well, since Version 79.5. Currently a semi-retired independent consultant in Florida (USA), he has augmented his professional coding experiences in the retail, media, insurance, and petrochemical fields by speaking at numerous SAS conferences and user group meetings. Andrew was conference chair of SAS Global Forum 2012 in Orlando, and co-chair for SESUG ’97 in Jacksonville and Tennessee SAS Users Day in Knoxville. In his spare time, Andrew volunteers at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa.