Note Lost Card Error SAS 9.4

[Whitlea]

I am getting the error below for the attached data input statement and I am not sure what the problem is or how to fix it.  I am assuming it might have something to do with the ' .' for missing data?  Thanks for your help!

1811 Data MTcontywage ;
1812 input name $15. wage state county;
1813 format county z3. wage dollar10.2;
1814 Datalines;

NOTE: LOST CARD.
RULE: ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8----
1873 ;
name= wage=. state=. county=. _ERROR_=1 _N_=58
NOTE: SAS went to a new line when INPUT statement reached past the end of a line.
NOTE: The data set WORK.MTCONTYWAGE has 57 observations and 4 variables.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
real time 0.01 seconds
cpu time 0.00 seconds

1873 ;

[Whitlea]

here is the data file 

[data_null__]

You need to use list input for first variable NAME. Put an & as shown below to read list input with embedded blanks.
input name &$15.

[ballardw]

What is happening is you are in one way or another telling SAS it is supposed to read past the end of the data line.

Specific to this case you have a completely blank line of data before the semicolon ending the datalines.

So when SAS tried to read that line it didn't find anything and started to look on the next (non existent) line to finish the input statement. The unconditional format for name is forced to attempt to read something.

Data MTcontywage ;
input name $15. wage  state county;
format county z3. wage dollar10.2;
Datalines;
Beaverhead	    9.98	30 001
Big Horn	    16.49	30 003
Blaine	        11.35	30 005
Broadwater	    12.17	30 007
Carbon	        11.92	30 009
Cascade	        11.12	30 013
Carter          .       30 011
Chouteau	    10.00   30 015
Custer	        11.57	30 017
Daniels	        9.33	30 019
Dawson	        10.13	30 021
Deer Lodge	    12.20	30 023
Fallon	        12.00	30 025
Fergus	        12.50	30 027
Flathead	    12.69	30 029
Gallatin	    13.79	30 031
Garfield	    10.75	30 033
Glacier	        14.84	30 035
Golden Valley    .      30 037
Granite	        15.33	30 039
Hill	        13.93	30 041
Jefferson	    12.04	30 043
Judith Basin     .      30 045
Lake	        12.65	30 047
Lewis And Clark	12.65	30 049
Liberty     	8.00	30 051
Lincoln     	12.79	30 056
Madison     	10.46	30 057
McCone      	9.50	30 055
Meagher         .       30 059
Mineral     	11.05	30 061
Missoula	    12.49	30 063
Musselshell  	12.87	30 065
Park	        13.62	30 067
Phillips    	14.68	30 071
Petroleum        .      30 069
Pondera      	11.84	30 073
Powder River     .      30 075
Prairie          .      30 079
Powell      	11.49	30 077
Ravalli     	11.67	30 081
Richland    	11.76	30 083
Roosevelt   	15.38	30 085
Rosebud	        11.67	30 087
Sanders	        12.23	30 089
Sheridan	    9.69	30 091
Silver Bow   	10.69	30 093
Stillwater  	9.77	30 095
Sweet Grass  	10.20	30 097
Teton	        12.00	30 099
Toole	        10.49	30 101
Treasure        .       30 103
Valley	        13.29	30 105
Wheatland   	10.72	30 107
Wibaux          .       30 109
Yellowstone  	11.98	30 111
YNP             .       30 113

;

Two things also:

1) Never leave a blank line in a datalines block.

2) You may want to think about adding: Infile datalines truncover;

   The truncover (or other "over" options tell SAS what to do when the data line runs out of information

before the input statement is completed.