Format
Statistical Analysis System Data (Unix)
Summary
- Name
- Statistical Analysis System Data (Unix)
- Version
- 9.1
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/608
- 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
-
sas7bdat,sd7 - Submitted by
- Tessella / Tessella
Relationships
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
SAS Data (Unix) 9.1
- Description
- BOF: 32 byte binary magic {7} 0x31 = Unix {116} 'DATA' {53-61} '9.01'. 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
- Provenance
- Research and signatures provided by Tessella.
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
000000000000000000000000C2EA8160B31411CFBD92080009C7318C181F1011{7}31{116}44415441{56-64}392E3031- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V90
- Release date
- 30 March 2017
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Updated
Statistical Analysis System Data (Unix) 9.1: Simplified signature. Gave priority over fmt/1016. Added description.
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V74
- Release date
- 31 March 2014
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Updated
Statistical Analysis System Data (Unix) 9.1: Improved specificity of BOF signature sequence offset.
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V72
- Release date
- 12 November 2013
-
Added format
Statistical Analysis System Data (Unix) 9.1: Outline Entry Added. Submitted by Tessella.
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Added signature
Statistical Analysis System Data (Unix) 9.1: Signature developed by Tessella.