Please i am struggling figuring this out

[Fifieee1]

i am struggling to shift zip month and amount please help

[Reeza]

I'm guessing you're expected to use Data step & PUT statements? Or have you learned ODS Objects or ODSLISTS?

There's several ways to do something like this, the most easiest and basic is data step and PUT statements.

Going into ODS objects lets you add headers, formatting and control a lot of other options but is way more work.

[Reeza]

And this is likely the best way to operationalize something like this...so is this homework or a real problem?
https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings16/2240-2016.pdf

And this is the way you would most likely do it for a basic homework assignment. FYI - change the path (home/fkhurshed/Demo1) to one that works for you to run it all and see the files and output.

data report;

set sashelp.class;

newfile = catt("/home/fkhurshed/Demo1/", name, ".txt");
file temp filevar=newfile;

put "This is a report for " Name;
put Name "is " age " and weighs: " Weight;
*double space;
put;
put;
put "End of Report for:" Name "," sex;
run;

[Fifieee1]

I was in a long class sorry for the late reply
I was having issues with the column width.
But i figured it out thanks for the reply

[Tom]

Are you having trouble reading in the .DAT file?

The code in your photograph does not look correct.  Do you really have a numeric variables named FIRST and LAST?  Also is NAME supposed by numeric the way it is first used in the INPUT statement?  Or is NAME character like it is used in the second place it is used n your INPUT statement?

[Fifieee1]

Yes i took the wrong screenshot and that was the wrong one. No the file just has too many spaces and the width. But i figured it out already thank you.

[SASKiwi · Accepted solution]

Please update your post as answered in that case.