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TedShelly
Calcite | Level 5

I have raw data consisting of a long string of numbers separated by semicolons. Like this:

1; 2; 3; 4; 5; …

I don’t know the number of values in advance.

I’d like to read these in using a data step and create one observation per value.

I’ve looked at several examples of using the input statement, but nothing works the way I would like it to.

Anyone have a suggestion?

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data_null__
Jade | Level 19

You can use double trailing @ to read multiple obs from one record.

 

data a;
   infile cards4 dsd dlm=';';
   input v @@;
   cards4;
1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 
;;;;
   run;

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data_null__
Jade | Level 19

You can use double trailing @ to read multiple obs from one record.

 

data a;
   infile cards4 dsd dlm=';';
   input v @@;
   cards4;
1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 
;;;;
   run;
Astounding
PROC Star

That's a good approach.  You might find it necessary to include blanks as delimiters as well:

 

dlm='; '

TedShelly
Calcite | Level 5

This is very cool, thanks.  I had forgotten all about @@.

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