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sas_newbie3
Obsidian | Level 7

 This is my data in the text file.

MPG    WEIGHT    PRICE
----------------------
 22     2930      4099
 17     3350      4749
 22     2640      3799
 20     3250      4816
 15     4080      7827

I want to use do loop and array to generate the dadaset. But I am not sure how to deal with the second line, which is dash line. I want to skip it.

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Jagadishkatam
Amethyst | Level 16

This will work as we are trying to read the data from third observation

 

data have;
infile 'F:\new.txt' firstobs=3 missover;
input MPG    WEIGHT    PRICE;
run;

 

Thanks,
Jag

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Jagadishkatam
Amethyst | Level 16

This will work as we are trying to read the data from third observation

 

data have;
infile 'F:\new.txt' firstobs=3 missover;
input MPG    WEIGHT    PRICE;
run;

 

Thanks,
Jag

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