001 Christopher Mullens 11/12/1955 $45,200 002 Michelle Kwo 9/12/1955 $78,123 003 Roger W. McDonald 1/1/1960 $107,200 data listMultiple; infile "d:\sas\list_MultipleBlank.txt"; input id : $3. name & $20. date1 : mmddyy10. amount : dollar8.; run; proc print data=listMultiple; format date1 mmddyy10. amount dollar8.; run; When I try to read the above data, I got the following errors: 17 data listMultiple; 18 infile "d:\sas\list_MultipleBlank.txt"; 19 input id : $3. name & $20. 20 date1 : mmddyy10. amount : dollar8.; 21 run; NOTE: The infile "d:\sas\list_MultipleBlank.txt" is: File Name=d:\sas\list_MultipleBlank.txt, RECFM=V,LRECL=256 NOTE: Invalid data for date1 in line 2 1-3. NOTE: Invalid data for amount in line 2 5-12. RULE: ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8----+- 2 CHAR 002 Michelle Kwo 9/12/1955 .$78,123 37 ZONE 3332466666662476222323323333202332333 NUMR 0020D9385CC50B7F0009F12F195509478C123 id=001 name=Christopher Mullens date1=. amount=. _ERROR_=1 _N_=1 NOTE: Invalid data for date1 in line 3 24-24. NOTE: Invalid data for amount in line 3 27-34. 3 CHAR 003 Roger W. McDonald . 1/1/1960 $107,200 43 ZONE 3332566672522464666662202232323333223332333 NUMR 00302F75207E0D34FE1C4009001F1F196004107C200 id=003 name=Roger W. McDonald date1=. amount=. _ERROR_=1 _N_=2 NOTE: 3 records were read from the infile "d:\sas\list_MultipleBlank.txt". The minimum record length was 37. The maximum record length was 43. NOTE: SAS went to a new line when INPUT statement reached past the end of a line. NOTE: The data set WORK.LISTMULTIPLE has 2 observations and 4 variables. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): real time 0.17 seconds cpu time 0.06 seconds 22 proc print data=listMultiple; 23 format date1 mmddyy10. amount dollar8.; 24 run; NOTE: There were 2 observations read from the data set WORK.LISTMULTIPLE. NOTE: PROCEDURE PRINT used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds cpu time 0.01 seconds
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