Date:         Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:29:01 -0500
Reply-To:     "Janas, James W" <james.janas@EDS.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Janas, James W" <james.janas@EDS.COM>
Subject:      SAS OUTPUT Question
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Hope someone can help me out. I am running on OS390 system. I have spun off
a JES2 sysout to disk. Each page of the sysout has 5 lines of data.
Everytime I read a record from the sysout SAS is outputing a record. Is
there a way I can read 5 input records and create one SAS record?
 
 
Here is the test code I have been running:
 
DATA     SYSDATA1 (KEEP=DATE HOUR);
RETAIN DATE HOUR;
  DO I=1 TO 5;
  INFILE INPUT1;
   INPUT
   FLD1    $ 03-06 FLD2    $ 18-24@;
   IF FLD1 = 'TIME' THEN HOUR = SUBSTR(FLD2,1,2);
   ELSE
   IF FLD1 = 'DATE' THEN DATE = FLD2;
   ELSE DELETE;
  END;
  OUTPUT SYSDATA1;
 
Thanks in advance,
Jim