Organizing Messy Data

[Jcox22]

I'm a new SAS programmer and am currently working on a dataset thats disorganized like this:

data1 var1 data2 var2 data3 var3

data1 var1 data1 var1 data2 var2 ...

I was wondering if there was a pointer in sas (like @)  that would allow me to point before the variable to organize the data. Thanks

EDIT: Resolved

[Astounding]

Not sure if this is what you are after, but the INPUT statement supports moving to a character string within the line such as:

input @'data1' +5 var1;

[Kurt_Bremser]

In your second row, you have two values for "var1". How do you want to handle such an occurrence? First value, last value, or do you want to output a separate observation for each value? In the latter case, what do you want to do with the other name/value pairs in the same input line?

It would be helpful if you posted the expected dataset from your input data.