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Please i am struggling figuring this out

Fifieee1 — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:14:48 GMT

i am struggling to shift zip month and amount please help

Re: Please i am struggling figuring this out

Reeza — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:28:25 GMT

I'm guessing you're expected to use Data step & PUT statements? Or have you learned ODS Objects or ODSLISTS?

There's several ways to do something like this, the most easiest and basic is data step and PUT statements.

Going into ODS objects lets you add headers, formatting and control a lot of other options but is way more work.

Re: Please i am struggling figuring this out

Reeza — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 21:05:37 GMT

And this is likely the best way to operationalize something like this...so is this homework or a real problem?
https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings16/2240-2016.pdf

And this is the way you would most likely do it for a basic homework assignment. FYI - change the path (home/fkhurshed/Demo1) to one that works for you to run it all and see the files and output.

data report;

set sashelp.class;

newfile = catt("/home/fkhurshed/Demo1/", name, ".txt");
file temp filevar=newfile;

put "This is a report for " Name;
put Name "is " age " and weighs: " Weight;
*double space;
put;
put;
put "End of Report for:" Name "," sex;
run;

Re: Please i am struggling figuring this out

Tom — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:49:16 GMT

Are you having trouble reading in the .DAT file?

The code in your photograph does not look correct. Do you really have a numeric variables named FIRST and LAST? Also is NAME supposed by numeric the way it is first used in the INPUT statement? Or is NAME character like it is used in the second place it is used n your INPUT statement?

Re: Please i am struggling figuring this out

Fifieee1 — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 23:03:23 GMT

I was in a long class sorry for the late reply
I was having issues with the column width.
But i figured it out thanks for the reply

Re: Please i am struggling figuring this out

Fifieee1 — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 23:07:59 GMT

Yes i took the wrong screenshot and that was the wrong one. No the file just has too many spaces and the width. But i figured it out already thank you.

Re: Please i am struggling figuring this out

SASKiwi — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 23:43:19 GMT

Please update your post as answered in that case.