Having issues in using Infile option.

deleted_user — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:30:07 GMT

Hi All,
I have a Ascii file which is fixed width length. In the SAS program, I am reading the file through Infile option. I have data as below:

1201 2008-10-31 5702345678 2334
First column I should read as : 1
Second Column: 201
Third Column:
Fourth: 2008-10-31
Fifth:
Sixth:
Seventh:
Eigth:570
Ninth:2345678
tenth:
Eleventh:2334

But when I use infile option it is only reading first three columns and rest columns are empty even though some of the columns are having data.

Here is my code snippet.
data _null_;
filename temp "/mydir/filename.txt";
libname wip '$PWD/old';

data wip.basic_xtrct;
infile temp truncover;
input @1 first $1.
@2 Second $3.
@3 Third $10.
run;

Can you please help me in solving this issue.

Re: Having issues in using Infile option.

deleted_user — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:03:16 GMT

Can anybody help on the below problem.

Re: Having issues in using Infile option.

Cynthia_sas — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:23:03 GMT

Hi:
It looks like you also posted your question in another forum posting.... and suggestions were posted there:
http://support.sas.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=3865&tstart=0

cynthia

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