https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean/m-p/725031#M225143 <P>Hold the input data line for the next INPUT statement within that pass through the DATA step.</P> Wed, 10 Mar 2021 02:44:13 GMT WarrenKuhfeld 2021-03-10T02:44:13Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean/m-p/725027#M225140 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="tianerhu_0-1615343336507.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/55754i78DBC52165E22982/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="tianerhu_0-1615343336507.png" alt="tianerhu_0-1615343336507.png" /></span></P> <P>Could you tell me what the five @s mean&nbsp; ?&nbsp; Thank you .</P> Wed, 10 Mar 2021 02:30:17 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean/m-p/725027#M225140 tianerhu 2021-03-10T02:30:17Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean/m-p/725031#M225143 <P>Hold the input data line for the next INPUT statement within that pass through the DATA step.</P> Wed, 10 Mar 2021 02:44:13 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean/m-p/725031#M225143 WarrenKuhfeld 2021-03-10T02:44:13Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean/m-p/725032#M225144 <P>Read the logs.<BR />It's in a post a while back.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>it's <A href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean-in-the-input-statement/m-p/724748#M225030" target="_self">here</A>.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 10 Mar 2021 02:50:49 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean/m-p/725032#M225144 japelin 2021-03-10T02:50:49Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean/m-p/725081#M225173 <P>@ and a number means "read <STRONG>at</STRONG> column &lt;that number&gt;"</P> <P>@"some text"&nbsp;&nbsp; means "read from the column immediately after the text in the quotes if it is on the current line"</P> <P>@ at the end of an input statement is the same as in <A href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean-in-the-input-statement/m-p/724747" target="_blank">https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean-in-the-input-statement/m-p/724747</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&amp;cdcVersion=9.4_3.4&amp;docsetId=lestmtsref&amp;docsetTarget=n13ejk9swz5vrbn0z34iazfrp0wp.htm&amp;locale=en">https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&amp;cdcVersion=9.4_3.4&amp;docsetId=lestmtsref&amp;docsetTarget=n13ejk9swz5vrbn0z34iazfrp0wp.htm&amp;locale=en</A>&nbsp; has the documentation on various ways to specify which column to read from</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Read the documentation for LIST , FORMATTED and NAMED input as well since these can be mixed on a single INPUT statement (with some limits)</P> Wed, 10 Mar 2021 09:28:12 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean/m-p/725081#M225173 ballardw 2021-03-10T09:28:12Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean/m-p/725129#M225194 <P>Thank you for your help.</P> Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:45:07 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/what-does-the-mean/m-p/725129#M225194 tianerhu 2021-03-10T13:45:07Z