However our population sample data files come with 20 character long header string specifying when and where it came from. How do I instruct SAS to begin writing the input statement after skipping the first 20 characters ONLY ONCE?
So do you need anything from the first line? Can you use FIRSTOBS on the infile statement to specify start reading at the second line?
data LIBNAME.POPULATION_INFILE;
infile FILELOC1 firstobs=2 truncover;
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