[Urgent] Issue with Input & :

[Joseph2020]

After I run the code, I found that there is a format shift in Jorgensen and Robinson, while the other data does not have such problem. May I know the reason why? Thank you.

DATA grades;
input Name &$9. Gender: $1. Section: $3. ExamGrade1 @@;
Datalines;
Jones       F Mon   39    Jorgensen   M Mon 63
Judson     F Fri      89    Kuhn           F  Mon 89
LeBlanc    F Fri      70    Lee             M Fri    48
Litowski    M Fri     85    Malloy         M Wed 79
Meyer       F Fri     85    Nichols        M Mon 58
Oliver       F Mon   41    Park            F Mon  77
Patel        M Wed  73    Randleman F Wed  46
Robinson M Fri     64    Shien           M Wed 55
Simonson M Wed 62    Smith N       M Wed 71
Smith R    M Mon  79    Sullivan       M Fri    77

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[PaigeMiller]

The & indicates SAS will continue reading the field until two (or more) blanks appear consecutively.

Randleman has only one blank after the name. So you need to be sure that each name has two blanks after it.

[ballardw]

You should post code on this forum into a code box opened with either the </> or "running man" icon. The main message windows will reformat text, often removing white space or inserting/replacing characters with html tags.

You may want to look very closely at your post and see if the code actually looks as it did in your editor.

Then copy the code from the post, paste into your editor and see if you get exactly the same results