How to create a comma separated file (.csv) of a SAS dataset?
IN SAS programming, we often require outputting the dataset in different formats like EXCEL and CSV etc and here are the five different ways to export the SAS dataset into .csv file.   Example:   data  new ;  infile  datalines dsd dlm=' ' missover;  input  a b c d;   datalines;  3 5 1 1  4 1 . .  5 8 3 2  6 0 4 4  ;  run ;   By putting MISSOVER  in the infile statement we are telling SAS to do not look for the data in the next lane if it runs out of the data, instead keep missing values for any remaining variables.   DSD  and DLM  options should be included always in the infile statement, if we include the  dlm=’ ‘ in the infile statement then SAS will put one digit for each variable even though we haven’t assigned any length to variable.   DSD  option will tell SAS to consider a missing value if 2 delimiters are present side by side in any observation.   When we ran the above program in SAS, we create a SAS dataset name ‘ NEW’  in the work directory and if we want to create a ...