finch-post-10.mail.demon.net([194.217.242.38];helo=post.mail.demon.net) by AKH-Wien.AC.AT with TCP Received: from [194.222.186.226] (helo=crawfordsoftware.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 100iR5-0007f7-00 for SAS-L@AKH-WIEN.AC.AT; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 08:47:27 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 3.05 <uUq1LwAYB2QUgi8fmhIjRFrCnM> Message-ID: <UZ4tiDA+3an2Ewao@crawfordsoftware.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 08:42:38 +0000 Reply-To: Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK> Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@AKH-WIEN.AC.AT> From: Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK> Subject: Re: Proc Logistic output problem X-LSVRepTo: X-LSVopts: NOACK X-LSVvia: SAS-L@AKH-WIEN.AC.AT X-LSVTag: Message-ID: <UZ4tiDA+3an2Ewao@crawfordsoftware.demon.co.uk> X-LSVTag: Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 08:42:38 +0000 X-LSVTag: To: SAS-L@AKH-WIEN.AC.AT X-LSVTag: From: Peter Crawford <Peter@crawfordsoftware.demon.co.uk> X-LSVTag: Subject: Re: Proc Logistic output problem X-LSVTag: In-Reply-To: <916276616.214511.0@vm121.akh-wien.ac.at> X-LSVTag: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-LSVTag: X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 3.05 <uUq1LwAYB2QUgi8fmhIjRFrCnM> To: $PEER$ <SAS-L@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <916276616.214511.0@vm121.akh-wien.ac.at>

To respect & preserve embedded / leading blanks use informat $charN.

When you read variable width data, it may be safer to use the infile option TRUNCOVER than MISSOVER

In article <916276616.214511.0@vm121.akh-wien.ac.at>, Lanning, Chris <clanning@AMGEN.COM> writes >Hello all, > >Here is my problem. Proc Logistic gives some very nice diagnostic output (snip) >number with the patient number. For some reason every time I read from the >'lst' file using INFILE ... PAD; SAS removes the leading blanks even though >I am specifying the start (using the @1) and an informat (using $11.). >Please see code below. > (snip)

>*** Read in the logistic.lst; >data temp3; > infile 'c:\mydocu~1\logistic.lst' pad missover; > input @1 num1 $11. *** Should include leading blanks, shouldn't >it?; > @12 char1 $157.; > > obnum = _n_; *** Keep track of original order of output so I can >reconstruct; > (snip)

> >Any help would be greatly appreciated as my wife will not like my bald head >(I pulled out all my hair working on this little problem). > >Sincerely, >Chris Lanning

I'm sure there ought to be comment about baldheaded middleaged SAS-ers

but it might be a bit too close for comfort

regards -- Peter Crawford