Date:         Sun, 12 Nov 2000 10:45:48 GMT
Reply-To:     Andreas Grueninger <grueninger@IBGRUENINGER.DE>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Andreas Grueninger <grueninger@IBGRUENINGER.DE>
Organization: Ingenieurbuero Grueninger
Subject:      Re: Data Step Question

Roger Lustig <julierog@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

Roger's solution creates another structure of the data set as used in
Anna's post.
To get the same structure use the @ (or § in MVS) modifier of the
INPUT statement.
@ holds the line pointer in the record of the flat file.
And remove all '#<n>' if using column based input.
And why column based input when DSD is used?

Data one;
infile 'e:\file10.txt' dsd truncover ;
input  Age  1-10 balance  15-20 sales    25-30 @ ;
OUTPUT;
input  Age  41-50 balance  55-60 sales    65-70 ;
OUTPUT;
run;

And if there are really delimiters in the data which is implicated by
DSD then used better the following

* --- adapt to your informats ;
Data one;
        INFORMAT age 10.0 balance 6.0 sales 6.0;
        infile 'e:\file10.txt' dsd truncover ;
        input  Age  balance sales @ ;
        OUTPUT;
        input  Age balance  sales ;
        OUTPUT;
run;


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