Student - Probably Easy Question..

[wakeborder556]

Hi all, I'm learning SAS for my biological statistics class...

Anyway, I'm having problems with my output.  In my dataset I have two words for one of my countries (United States) and when I go to output, it only puts United.  Maybe I need to add a label? I'm using SAS 9.2.

data two;

length County $30;

input County life People physician Female Male;

label life = 'Life expectancy'

            people = 'People per television'

            physician = 'People per physician'

            Female = 'Female life expectancy'

            Male = 'Male Life expectancy';

datalines;

Argentina 70.5 4 370 74 67

Bangladesh 53.5 315 6166 53 54

Brazil 65 4 684 68 62

Canada 76.5 1.7 449 80 73

China 70 8 643 72 68

Colombia 71 5.6 1551 74 68

Egypt 60.5 15 616 61 60

Ethiopia 51.5 503 36660 53 50

France 78 2.6 403 82 74

Germany 76 2.6 346 79 73

India 57.5 44 2471 58 57

Indonesia 61 24 7427 63 59

Iran 64.5 23 2992 65 64

Italy 78.5 3.8 233 82 75

United States 75.5 1.3 404 79 7

run;

proc print data = two;

run; quit;

[art297]

Easy solution if you make one change to your data.  An ampersand after county (I presume that you meant that to be country) would allow your code to read a variable that contains a space.  However, when you do that, the next variable has to be separated by at least two spaces.  Thus, if you try the following, you will probably get the result that you are looking for.

data two;

  length County $30;

  input County & life People physician Female Male;

  label life = 'Life expectancy'

            people = 'People per television'

            physician = 'People per physician'

            Female = 'Female life expectancy'

            Male = 'Male Life expectancy';

  datalines;

Argentina  70.5 4 370 74 67

Bangladesh  53.5 315 6166 53 54

Brazil  65 4 684 68 62

Canada  76.5 1.7 449 80 73

China  70 8 643 72 68

Colombia  71 5.6 1551 74 68

Egypt  60.5 15 616 61 60

Ethiopia  51.5 503 36660 53 50

France  78 2.6 403 82 74

Germany  76 2.6 346 79 73

India  57.5 44 2471 58 57

Indonesia  61 24 7427 63 59

Iran  64.5 23 2992 65 64

Italy  78.5 3.8 233 82 75

United States  75.5 1.3 404 79 7

;

run;

proc print data = two;

run; quit;

[Peter_C]

Hi wakeborder556

If you are able to change your data, instead double-spacing data after country name, you might find it faster to place country names that contain a space, within quotes, like:

"United States" 75.5 1.3 404 79 7

and add (before the input statement) the new statement

infile datalines dsd dlm= " "  ;

The feature that DSD provides for you here, is managing "columns" within quotes.

I reduced your step, only to clarify >>>

data two;

  length County $30;

  infile datalines dsd dlm= " " ;

  input County life People physician Female Male;

datalines;

Argentina 70.5 4 370 74 67

"United States" 75.5 1.3 404 79 7

;

[art297]

Conversely, as long as there are no numbers in County name and you don't have any missing data, here is another way that you could input the data without having to modify it:

data two;

  length County $30;

  input;

  County=substr(_infile_,1,anydigit(_infile_)-2);

  _infile_=substr(_infile_,anydigit(_infile_));

  life=scan(_infile_,1," ");

  People=scan(_infile_,2," ");

  physician=scan(_infile_,3," ");

  Female=scan(_infile_,4," ");

  Male=scan(_infile_,5," ");

  label life = 'Life expectancy'

            people = 'People per television'

            physician = 'People per physician'

            Female = 'Female life expectancy'

            Male = 'Male Life expectancy';

  datalines;

Argentina 70.5 4 370 74 67

Bangladesh 53.5 315 6166 53 54

Brazil 65 4 684 68 62

Canada 76.5 1.7 449 80 73

China 70 8 643 72 68

Colombia 71 5.6 1551 74 68

Egypt 60.5 15 616 61 60

Ethiopia 51.5 503 36660 53 50

France 78 2.6 403 82 74

Germany 76 2.6 346 79 73

India 57.5 44 2471 58 57

Indonesia 61 24 7427 63 59

Iran 64.5 23 2992 65 64

Italy 78.5 3.8 233 82 75

United States 75.5 1.3 404 79 7

;