Format
Statistical Analysis System Data (Windows)
Summary
- Name
- Statistical Analysis System Data (Windows)
- Version
- 8.2
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1017
- 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.
- File extensions
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sas7bdat,sd7 - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
SAS Data (Windows) 8.2
- Description
- BOF: 32 byte binary magic {7} 0x32 = Windows {116} 'DATA' {53-61} '8.02'. 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{56-64}382E3032- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V90
- Release date
- 30 March 2017
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Added format
Statistical Analysis System Data (Windows) 8.2: 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) 8.2: Signature developed through PRONOM Research. Requested by Filling the Digital Preservation Gap - University of York and University of Hull.