I haven't used SAS since March of last year in my graduate studies, so I was re-familiarizing myself with it. I feel mucho embarrassed, but I cannot understand why this code is not bringing in the balance. It is from Ron Cody's Learning SAS by Example book.
data financial;
infile '/folders/myfolders/SAS/Learning/bank.txt';
input Subj $ 1-3
DOB $ 4-13
Gender $ 14
Balance 5-21;
run;Here is the text file, again from Ron's book.
00110/21/1955M 1145
00211/18/2001F 18722
00305/07/1944M 123.45
00407/25/1945F -12345Here is my result:
Edited: Is it the space in the text file? I shouldn't think so given that I've reserved the columns.
Should it say 15 instead of 5?
Balance 15-21;
Oh dear... yes.
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