Summary
Statements
DATALINES;
indicates that data
lines immediately follow the DATALINES statement. A semicolon in the
line that immediately follows the last data line indicates the end
of the data and causes the DATA step to compile and execute.
INFILE DATALINES DLM='character';
identifies the source
of the input records as data lines in the job stream rather than as
an external file. When your program contains the input data, the data
lines directly follow the DATALINES statement. Because you can specify
DATALINES in the INFILE statement, you can take advantage of many
data-reading options that are available only through the INFILE statement.
The DLM= option specifies the character that is used to separate data values in the input ...
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