If not using trailing sign

[jc3992]

Hello everyone,

there was a question in my assignment, and after I checked the answer,

I still did not understand, so I post it here.

The data set is as below:

Yellowstone           ID/MT/WY 1872    4,065,493
Everglades            FL 1934          1,398,800
Yosemite              CA 1864            760,917
Great Smoky Mountains NC/TN 1926         520,269
Wolf Trap Farm        VA 1966                130

And the question was:

Figure out how to read in the data without using the @40

pointer (or any pointer). Describe what you did, and why, and submit your code

The  answer was to use COMMA9. for Acreage (the last column)

so the answer was :

Input National Park $ State $ Year Acreage;
Informat Acreage COMMA9.;
run;

There was also another question that,

whether there be any difference between placing the "Informat" before or after the "Input" statement?

I think there would be no difference,

am I correct?

Thank you!

[Kurt_Bremser]

Your code as posted won't work to your satisfaction, as national_park has blanks in some rows.

See my slight correction:

data want;
Input National_Park $22. State $ Year Acreage;
Informat Acreage COMMA9.;
cards;
Yellowstone           ID/MT/WY 1872    4,065,493
Everglades            FL 1934          1,398,800
Yosemite              CA 1864            760,917
Great Smoky Mountains NC/TN 1926         520,269
Wolf Trap Farm        VA 1966                130
;
run;

As for your second question: just try it.