create data set by type raw data

[Ronein]

Hello

What is the correct way to create this data set.

Sometimes there are long spaces between items and I dont want  to change it manually.

I know that for each variable there should be only one item (or one word only)

Data Longtbl;
input ID field $  labelField $  category $ ;
cards;
1 x1      Team a
1 x2 smoker y
1 x3  status	1
2 x1 Team b
2 x2 smoker	n
2 x3 status	2
3 x1 Team c
3 x2 smoker	n
3 x3 status	2
4 x1 Team a
4 x2 smoker	n
4 x3 status	3
5 x1 Team b
5 x2 smoker	y
5 x3 status	1
6 x1 Team a
6 x2 smoker	y
6 x3 status	1
7 x1 Team c
7 x2 smoker	y
7 x3 status	2
8 x1 Team a
8 x2 smoker	n
8 x3 status	2
9 x1 Team a
9 x2 smoker	y
9 x3 status	3
;
run;

[Shmuel]

The delimiter in your data is sometimes space '20'x and sometimes tab '09'x or both.

To read the the data ceorrectly I have added an INFILE statement with appropriate options:

Data Longtbl;
infile cards dlm='2009'x truncover;
input ID field $  labelField $  category $ ;
cards;
1 x1      Team a
1 x2 smoker y
1 x3  status	1
2 x1 Team b
2 x2 smoker	n
2 x3 status	2
3 x1 Team c
3 x2 smoker	n
3 x3 status	2
4 x1 Team a
4 x2 smoker	n
4 x3 status	3
5 x1 Team b
5 x2 smoker	y
5 x3 status	1
6 x1 Team a
6 x2 smoker	y
6 x3 status	1
7 x1 Team c
7 x2 smoker	y
7 x3 status	2
8 x1 Team a
8 x2 smoker	n
8 x3 status	2
9 x1 Team a
9 x2 smoker	y
9 x3 status	3
;
run;

[Shmuel]

You can check delimiters using notepad++ or msword and brows with view-all symbols.