hello ALl,
I am looking for a soluition .
I am reading a pipe seperator csv file.
for one column data is going to 2nd line and adn 3rd line as well.
and in the 4th line next PIPE (|) seperator is there to divide other column data.
Please tell me how can I read, in below example for city column I want to read data start from london to china untill it is not getting next pipe symbol.
example :
name|id|city|date
john|123|london
sweden - germeny - india
pakistan china
|26jul2017
data have;
infile cards truncover;
input have $200.;
length x $ 2000;
retain x;
x=catx(' ',x,have);
if countc(x,'|')=3 then do;
name=scan(x,1,'|');
id=scan(x,2,'|');
city=scan(x,3,'|');
date=scan(x,4,'|');
output;
call missing(x);
end;
drop x have;
cards;
name|id|city|date
john|123|london
sweden - germeny - india
pakistan china
|26jul2017
;
run;
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