reading in data

[cj9000]

Hi, I have tried to read this data in several diffferent ways and cannot get it to align correctly. The code and the results are below.  The visitmnemonic column keeps reading too much and if I shorten the length then the first obs is also shortened. Thanks in advance for your help.

data widepe ;
input @1 subjectnumberstr $9. @11 visitmnemonic $9. pegenap_c & $31. ;
datalines;
0100-1204 screening Abnormal, please specify
0100-1204 eos/et Normal
;
run;
proc print data = widepe; run;

SAS Output

Obs	subjectnumberstr	visitmnemonic	pegenap_c
1	0100-1204	screening	Abnormal, please specify
2	0100-1204	eos/et N	ormal

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

Use colons before the formats so that the blanks as column separators are not overridden:

data widepe;
input subjectnumberstr :$9. visitmnemonic :$9. pegenap_c & :$31.;
datalines;
0100-1204 screening Abnormal, please specify
0100-1204 eos/et Normal
;
run;

proc print data=widepe;
run;

[cj9000]

Thank you very much!