Review of Column Input
Overview
In
Creating SAS Data Sets from External Files, you
learned how to use column input to read raw data that is stored in
an external file.
You
can use column input to read the values for Item, IDnum, InStock,
and BackOrd from the raw data file that is referenced by the
fileref Invent.
input Item $ 1-13 IDnum $ 15-19 InStock 21-22
BackOrd 24-25;
Notice that the INPUT statement lists the variables with their
corresponding column locations in order from left to right.
However, one of the features of column input is the ability to read
fields in any order.
For example, you could have read the values for InStock ...
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