i am having error please help me

[kinjal]

data inventory;
retain id item price vendor;

input id item$ 11. price vendor$ 20.;
msrp=price*1.5;
label id ='Item Id' msrp='Max Retail price';
cards;
1 apple 2.19 walmart
2 grapes 1.99 shop$stop
;
run;

[PaigeMiller]

Normally when you are a having problems, you go ahead and describe the problems to us, and show us the ENTIRE log for this code. Otherwise how would we know what the error is that you are having?

[kinjal]

getting dot as output in price and vendor variable.

[kinjal]

I am very new in sas programing need help

[kinjal]

getting dots as output in price and vendor variables

[Reeza · Accepted solution]

input id item : $11. price : best12. vendor : $20.;

[kinjal]

Thank you 

[kinjal]

if you don't mind then please explain me : and best why we use here ??

[Reeza]

When you specify $11 without a modifier SAS reads 11 characters. With the modifier it reads until it encounters a space is the biggest reason.

Another way to achieve this is to specify informats not on the INPUT statement.

[Reeza]

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Colon-Modifier/td-p/240240

#2 here

https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings/proceedings/sugi26/p073-26.pdf

[kinjal]

data food;
input @1Restaurant$ 11.@12NumEmploy 1. @13Location$ 20.;
datalines;

burger king 5 toronto;

run;

[Reeza]

Is that a question?

[kinjal]

Yes dear can you able to help me ??##- Please type your reply above this
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[Reeza]

You cannot just post some random code, expect someone to run it, find the error and debug it for you.

Please frame your questions as follows if you want help efficiently. This will allow us to help you get your problems solved. 

In general, see this post  or this post on how to ask good programming questions. You'll save yourself a ton of time and get your answers much faster.

This is my problem (I am trying to read in data that has two parts to a name separated by a space into one variable but it's not working correctly)

What you'ved tried: This is my code so far

What happens with that code:

This is what it generates and this is the log. 

[kinjal]

Thank you. I will try better next time.