Hello everyone, I recently started a class in college for SAS programming and so far myself and my classmates have been experiencing difficulties. Without going into too much detail, the reason I am reaching out is because the professor is not very present for this class and the material being taught does not run correctly within SAS. The specific issue we are facing is that we are unable to find suitable code for pointing to specific locations with columns in formatted input. We are supposed to have an input that is identical to the image I have attached, but our examples that are being taught are incorrect and do not work. I have tried many different methods and this is the one I am currently using, but it is still not producing the output we need. I've included a screenshot of the incorrect output we are currently generating below. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! The current line of code we are using. DATA class_info;
INFILE DATALINES ;
INPUT Course $8. +1 Days $2. +1 BeginDate mmddyy10. +2 EndDate mmddyy10. +2 Credits 3. +2 Tuition dollar4.;
DATALINES;
DSCI 200 08/26/2019 10/29/2019 3 3000
DSCI 307 TT 08/26/2019 12/12/2019 3 3000
MATH 371 MW 08/26/2019 12/11/2019 3 3000
MATH 372 MW 08/27/2019 .......... 3 3000
;
RUN;
PROC PRINT DATA=class_info;
TITLE 'Reading in Data using Pointers/Informats';
FORMAT BeginDate mmddyy10. EndDate mmddyy10. Tuition dollar4.;
RUN; What we are suppose to produce Incorrect output Any help would be greatly appreciate!
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