Hi,
I use SAS Studio. I made a mistake and I wrote a number instaed of an informat in the input statement.
The program is this:
data ex.dat1;
input@1 dep 2. @4 num 2;
datalines;
34 10
;
run;
Why does the output dataset is this?
34 4
Thanks,
Alessandro
Consider that the INPUT statement could have specified a range of columns:
input dep 1-2 num 4-5;
When a field occupies a single column, you don't need to specify:
input field 2-2;
Just this is enough to request that SAS take the value from column 2 of the incoming line of data:
input field 2;
That's what you're seeing.
Consider that the INPUT statement could have specified a range of columns:
input dep 1-2 num 4-5;
When a field occupies a single column, you don't need to specify:
input field 2-2;
Just this is enough to request that SAS take the value from column 2 of the incoming line of data:
input field 2;
That's what you're seeing.
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