https://bradleycarey.com/tags/seer/ Recent content in SEER on bradleycarey.com Hugo en Sat, 02 Sep 2023 22:22:18 -0400 https://bradleycarey.com/posts/2012-12-24-sas-data-file-to-postgresql-friendly-csv-using-perl/ Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:06:39 -0400 https://bradleycarey.com/posts/2012-12-24-sas-data-file-to-postgresql-friendly-csv-using-perl/ <p>In my database course at Marshall University, I helped my professor with a side project involving Cancer research data that has been collected since 1973 by the National Cancer Institute. My first job was to take the <a href="http://seer.cancer.gov/about/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SEER</a> data and load it into a postgreSQL database.</p> <p>The job was simple enough. The only problem? The data files were in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_%28software%29" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SAS format</a>. Basically the format was CRLF delimited entries composed of fixed-length fields. <a href="http://seer.cancer.gov/manuals/read.seer.research.nov2011.sas" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here</a> is a list of the fields and lengths that I used for the script.</p>