SCAN() does not support using multiple character strings as a delimiter.  But the INFILE statement does. data want ; length name gender animal $20 ; infile cards dlmstr='//' truncover ; input name gender animal; cards; Andy//Male//Cat Bac/h//Male//Dog ; So if you already have the string in a dataset you could try using the "_infile_ trick" to let you use the INPUT statement to read from your character variable. data want ; set have ; length name gender animal $20 ; infile cards dlmstr='//' truncover ; input @@; _infile_=itema; input @1 name gender animal @@; cards; Ignore me ;   ... View more

To extend what PGStats said, the test you perform depends on what you know (and want to know) about the data. 1. Where dd the data come from? If there reason to think that the data generating mechanism is uniform? 2. Do you know the upper and lower bounds of the data? For example, is the data always in the interval [0,10]? 3. Your example uses integer values. The Beta distribution is a continuous distribution. You can use the Beta distribution to test whether continuous data fits a uniform distribution. Unless your real data has values like 2.72 and 6.135, you won't get a good fit with the Beta distrib. 4. Based on your sample data, I think KSharp has the right idea. If you have lots of data that has integer values, you can test for a discrete uniform distribution on the set {0,1,...,10} by using a chi-square test.  If you have only a small amount of data (like your example), you probably want to bin groups together. For example, run a chi-square test for frequencies in the set {0-1, 2-3, 4-5,...} ... View more