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SAS® 9.4 and SAS® Viya® 3.3 Programming Documentation
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  • Welcome to SAS Programming Documentation for SAS® 9.4 and SAS® Viya® 3.3
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Accessing Data

Frequently Used Tasks

Import a delimited external file and create a temporary SAS data set
Associate a SAS library with a libref, or shortcut name, using the Global LIBNAME statement

Specialty LIBNAME Engines

Import an XML document using the XML LIBNAME Engine
Use JSON from a URL Access Method fileref
Use the DATA step to create a new SPD Engine data set
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