Format
Statistical Analysis System Data (Windows)
Summary
- Name
- Statistical Analysis System Data (Windows)
- Version
- Generic
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1015
- Format type
- Dataset
- Description
- SAS (Statistical Analysis System) is a statistical analysis software suite developed by SAS Institute. A SAS data file is a type of SAS data set that contains data values and descriptor information. This generic entry applies where PRONOM is unable to be specific regarding the version number of the file format. Please contact the PRONOM mailbox if you encounter a 'generic' SAS data file as this will help improve the data within PRONOM.
- File extensions
-
sas7bdat,sd7 - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Has lower priority than
Internal signatures
SAS Data (Windows) Generic
- Description
- BOF: 32 byte binary magic {7} 0x32 = Windows {116} 'DATA' Signature based extensively on unofficial description of DATA format, plus a wide variety of format samples: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sas7bdat/vignettes/sas7bdat.pdf
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
000000000000000000000000C2EA8160B31411CFBD92080009C7318C181F1011{7}32{116}44415441- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V90
- Release date
- 30 March 2017
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Added format
Statistical Analysis System Data (Windows) Generic: Full entry added. Requested by Filling the Digital Preservation Gap - University of York and University of Hull.
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Added signature
Statistical Analysis System Data (Windows) Generic: Signature developed through PRONOM Research. Requested by Filling the Digital Preservation Gap - University of York and University of Hull.