Hi,
I have space delimited text file with spaces between two names. I want to use the infile option with delimiter as space and keep the name in the same column. Here is a snippet of the code I am having.
Agoura Hills 21127 290 290 0 3 5 48 64 155 15 0
and so on.
Thanks in advance.
There is one characteristic of the data that determines whether this is easy or difficult. If you have two spaces after the name(s) instead of one, the problem is simple:
data want;
infile rawdata;
length place $ 20;
input place & var1 var2 var3 ....;
run;
Some short but relatively complex programming can handle the situation if there is only one space after the name(s).
Based on what you've posted the delimiter is a string of two consecutive blanks. If this is true then the following code should work:
data sample;
infile datalines truncover dlmstr=' ' dsd;
input @;
input name :$20. numvar1-numvar11;
datalines;
Agoura Hills 21127 290 290 0 3 5 48 64 155 15 0
Agoura 21127 290 290 0 3 5 48 64 155 15 0
;
run;
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