Date:         Fri, 5 Apr 2002 01:41:38 GMT
Reply-To:     Tim and Salene <timandsalene@AARTWOLF.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Tim and Salene <timandsalene@AARTWOLF.COM>
Organization: Concentric Internet Services
Subject:      Re: A space problem
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Try the $CHAR. informat.

Jason Sun wrote:
>
> Dear SAS users,
>
> What is the option to read the leading spaces into
> part of a character variables. In another words, if I
> have a file look like
>
> John Smith
>      Smith
> Peter Smith
>
> I can read in using statement "input name $ 1-20". But
> I like to have the name variable to have the value for
> the second record as "     Smith" rather than "Smith".
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Jason Sun
> Amazon.com
>
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