Date:         Wed, 6 Nov 2002 20:19:23 GMT
Reply-To:     evan.cooch@NOSPAMCORNELL.EDU
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         evan.cooch@NOSPAMCORNELL.EDU
Organization: Cornell University
Subject:      Re: input problem | text block | single variable

On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 19:21:17 GMT, evan.cooch@NOSPAMcornell.edu wrote:

>On 6 Nov 02 19:04:36 GMT, Brian.Shilling@ASTRAZENECA.COM (Shilling,
>Brian) wrote:
>
>>If you know the maximum length, you can try something
>>like this:
>>
>>
>>      infile '<filename>'
>>              MISSOVER
>>              DSD
>>              lrecl=32767;
>>
>>         format   raw_name $varying801.;
>>         informat raw_name $varying801.;
>>
>>
>>      input raw_name $;
>>
>>
>>You could replace the 801 with the length of the entire string.
>>
>
>Worth a try - fuynny, but after 20+ years of using SAS, this is the
>first time I've ever had to input data of this sort.
>


Above doesn't work.

Consider the following code (derived from above):

data test;
  infile cards MISSOVER DSD LRECL=32767;
    format fragment $varying154.;
   informat fragment $varying154.;
    input fragment $;
cards;
GACGGGTCGTTTCAGCTGAA

BSGDGASTTSTSTSTSTEND
*;


This still gives me 2 records for the variable fragment. I want
fragment to simply be

GACGGGTCGTTTCAGCTGAABSGDGASTTSTSTSTSTEND


I've tried using TRUNCOVER, but that doesn't work either.

But, if I do

options linesize=80;



data test;

  infile cards;

    length fragment $40 frag1 $20 frag2 $20;

    input #1 frag1 $

          #2 frag2 $;

fragment=frag1||frag2;

cards;

GACGGGTCGTTTCAGCTGAA

BSGDGASTTSTSTSTSTEND

*;



proc print;

run;


it works fine. The problem is, its cumbersome, especially since the
actual fragment I need to build this way is 24,00 characters long, and
is split over ~ 600 lines in the data file.