Date:         Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:46:18 -0500
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: inputting data

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:44:26 -0800, rss <rslotpole@COMCAST.NET> wrote:

>How can I modify this code to accept input for two dates?  This writes
>out to the screen but I need the input control
>
>data _null_;
>   window start
>          #9  @26 'WELCOME TO THE SAS SYSTEM'
>                  color=black
>          #12  @19 'Enter Start Date (mm/yy/dd) -->'
>          #12  @40 '         '
>          #14 @26 'Enter End Date (mm/yy/dd)-->'
>          #18 @27 'Press ENTER to continue';
>    display start;
>    stop;
>run;

you simply should add variables to get the data. A example from V9 docu:

data proclib.deptxx;
      window hrdata menu=proclib.menus.entrdata
      #5  @10 'Employee Number'
      #8  @10 'Salary'
      #11 @10 'Employee Name'
      #5  @31 empno $4.
      #8  @31 salary 10.
      #11 @31 name $30.
      #19 @10 'Press ENTER to add the observation to the data set.';