topic Re: modified list input in New SAS User

modified list input

anming — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 02:17:30 GMT

data list_modified;
input name $ & +3 lastname & $16. team $;
datalines;
Joseph     Joergensen White  Red
Mitchel     Mc Allister      blue
Su Ellen     Fischer Simon   green
;
run;

what does '+3' mean? without '+' only letter at position 3 is loaded for the name.

Re: modified list input

mkeintz — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 03:28:59 GMT

Change the +3 to, say, +6, and look at the result for lastname.

Re: modified list input

anming — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 04:25:01 GMT

it works from without, +0 to +3. but from +4 the last name will be truncated.

Re: modified list input

mkeintz — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:51:30 GMT

@anming wrote:
it works from without, +0 to +3. but from +4 the last name will be truncated.

Truncated on which side?

What does that tell you about the function of prefixing a number with a "+"?

Re: modified list input

anming — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:18:37 GMT

https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&cdcVersion=9.4_3.5&docsetId=lestmtsref&docsetTarget=n0oaql83drile0n141pdacojq97s.htm&locale=en#p10kxp5ghaqig7n1qcmwle2swfox

'@n' is the column point controls. '+m' means to shift m positions to the right.

Re: modified list input

Tom — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 04:21:46 GMT

Without the + the 3 means you want to read the variable NAME using COLUMN input instead of LIST MODE (modified or not).