I AM NOT ABLE TO SEE AGE'S OBSERVATION IN MY OUTPUT WINDOW. THE INPUT STATEMENT IS NOT WORKING.

[Shailesh_R_T]

DATA TRAILING;
INPUT @6 TYPE$ 1. @;
IF TYPE= '1' THEN INPUT AGE$= 1-2;
ELSE IF TYPE='2' THEN INPUT AGE$= 4-5;
DROP TYPE;
;
DATALINES;
23     1
   44 2
;
PROC PRINT DATA=TRAILING;
RUN;

[PaigeMiller · Accepted solution]

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[Tom]

You cannot have the = in the INPUT statement.  Also do not add a space between the $ and rest of the informat specification.  I know SAS accepts it but it just makes your code look broken.  If you just want the INPUT statement to read one character from column 6 you can also just use column mode for that variable also.

And you are apparently not reading the right columns for the TYPE variable.  The values appear in columns 8 and 7 in your example data, not column 6.

I do not understand why you need to run different INPUT statements for the example data you show.  Why not just read AGE from columns 1 to 5 ?  That will work fine for your example data.

1    data trailing;
2      input age 1-5 type $ ;
3      list;
4    datalines;

RULE:      ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+--
5          23     1
6             44 2
NOTE: The data set WORK.TRAILING has 2 observations and 2 variables.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.07 seconds
      cpu time            0.00 seconds

Is the problem that your lines of data have accidentally had some of the spaces replaced by TAB characters?  If so you might want to add an INFILE statement so that you can add the EXPANDTABS option.  You might also want the TRUNCOVER option in case the lines are truncated.

data trailing;
  infile datalines expandtabs truncover;
  input age 1-5 type $ ;
datalines;
23     1
   44 2
;

[Shailesh_R_T]

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