reading in multiple obs per record from datalines

[hspears]

Hi!

I want to read in the following datalines. 

1   2   3

4   5   6

7   8   9

I am having trouble with the multiples observations per record. How do I account for the 3 space delimiter in between each observation? 

Thank you! 

[Kurt_Bremser]

Just use a double hold indicator in the INPUT statement:

data want;
input initial $ before after @@;
DATALINES;
H 11 14   H  1 10   H 10 18   J  3  2   
S  2 22   S  2 16   T  6 23   R  7  4   
;

[ballardw]

List input doesn't care how many delimiters there are by default, multiple delimiters, i.e. spaces, are treated as one "separation". If your actual data doesn't have the spaces now that would be a different question.