topic Re: @ in SAS Programming

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beatraca — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 17:22:21 GMT

My doubt is the following:

In the pdf you can see a exercise.

In the line that say

 input style $ @;

this line want say that style is character and he @ that say that he read the same line not?

Thanks

LinusH — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 17:27:16 GMT

What does the documentation say?

The best way to fully understand syntax is to try them, adjust and see the difference in behaviour.

Shmuel — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 20:33:34 GMT

relating to line:

input style $ @;

means: read first variable in row and stay in same row until you get:

input <optional more variables> ;

the semi-colon ( ; ) tels SAS to skip to next row on next READ statement;