I wrote the following code:
data sexact;
input male female year calyear ;
datalines;
0.63 0.51 1 1991
0.62 0.52 3 1993
0.63 0.57 5 1995
0.58 0.51 7 1997
0.59 0.49 9 1999
0.53 0.46 11 2001
0.56 0.5 13 2003
0.55 0.5 15 2005
0.55 0.5 17 2007
0.53 0.48 19 2009
0.54 0.48 21 2011
0.52 0.47 23 2013
0.45 0.4 25 2015
0.41 0.37 27 2017
;
run;
And this code does not generate and output table
Could you help me know what the problem is?
The log page says:
Perhaps you have tabs instead of spaces.
The following code ran fine after using my editor feature to convert tabs to spaces
data sexact;
input male female year calyear ;
datalines;
0.63 0.51 1 1991
0.62 0.52 3 1993
0.63 0.57 5 1995
0.58 0.51 7 1997
0.59 0.49 9 1999
0.53 0.46 11 2001
0.56 0.5 13 2003
0.55 0.5 15 2005
0.55 0.5 17 2007
0.53 0.48 19 2009
0.54 0.48 21 2011
0.52 0.47 23 2013
0.45 0.4 25 2015
0.41 0.37 27 2017
;
run;
Perhaps you have tabs instead of spaces.
The following code ran fine after using my editor feature to convert tabs to spaces
data sexact;
input male female year calyear ;
datalines;
0.63 0.51 1 1991
0.62 0.52 3 1993
0.63 0.57 5 1995
0.58 0.51 7 1997
0.59 0.49 9 1999
0.53 0.46 11 2001
0.56 0.5 13 2003
0.55 0.5 15 2005
0.55 0.5 17 2007
0.53 0.48 19 2009
0.54 0.48 21 2011
0.52 0.47 23 2013
0.45 0.4 25 2015
0.41 0.37 27 2017
;
run;
The log shows that you have hex 09 (TAB) characters as delimiter. Add this statement:
infile datalines dlm='09'x;
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