Date:         Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:39:24 +0100
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From:         Gehard Hellriegel <detecsm_hellriegelg@WESTLB.DE>
Subject:      Re: INPUT problem
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Hi,
you should use the informat $char78. for reading:

data _test_;
   length text $100;
   infile 'test.dat' dlm='!';
   input text: $char78.;
run;






Josef Müller <mullerj@TUNW.UPOL.CZ> on 25.01.2000 13:05:36

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Thema:    INPUT problem




Hello,
I have a folowing problem:

I need to read a records from external file and I use this syntax:

data _test_;
   infile 'path' dlm='!';
   input text:78;
run;

The external file has this structure:
each rows is ended by sign !
maximal length of each row is 78 characters

But my problem is:
If I use the programm as above, and I have a space on the first position in some
row, the resulting observation is without this space...

For example i have this part of external file:

1987154      2        0   0   0   0   0   1   1   5   7  17  21  46 10385   12!
6  165  184          !
1988154      2        0   0   0   0   0   1   3   7  12  16  33  67  82117  98!
   198  211          !

First three rows are read succesfully, but the fourth row is read as "   198
211          "

Thanks a lot for a quick help.

Hi, Josef





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