Hi all,   I have one file details.txt with data:- ajay manager account 45000 sunil clerk account 25000 varun manager sales 50000 amit manager account 47000 tarun peon sales 15000 deepak clerk sales 23000 sunil peon sales 13000 satvik director purchase 80000  I want output file out.txt same as input file details.txt but want spaces after datas to make all rows of 480bytes long.  To achieve this i have did :- =============================================================================================   DATA readFile;       INFILE '/home/inputFile/details.txt';       INPUT line $ 1-35; RUN;   PROC sql;       CREATE TABLE final(data char(480));       INSERT INTO final(data) select line FROM readFile; QUIT;   PROC REPORT DATA=final NOHEADER; RUN; FILNAME zout '/home/output/out.txt';   DATA _null_;   SET final end=eof;          * set the dataset final ;   RETAIN fid 0;   if _n_ eq 1 then      fid = fopen('zout','O');   if fid gt 0 then do;     rc = fput(fid,data);          * data is a variable of dataset final ;     rc = fwrite(fid,'P');   end;   if eof then      rc = fclose(fid); run; FILNAME zout;   =============================================================================================   but in output file i got each row of length 256 bytes but i want it 480 bytes.   Thanks in advance... Please provide me a solution to achieve my desired output.     ... View more

Hi guys,   I want to add particular number of white spaces in a string. Like suppose we have string "MESSAGE" . I want X number of spaces after 4th character of "MESSAGE" then how can i do the same.   Output should be like "MESS          AGE"  => X spaces between MESS and AGE.   Thanks in advance. ... View more