Date:         Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:36:44 +0800
Reply-To:     YCF <yiu628fan@YAHOO.COM.HK>
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From:         YCF <yiu628fan@YAHOO.COM.HK>
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Subject:      A little problem about "Space delimited" file

Hi all,
    I have a "space delimited" data file (filename: testing.prn) like this:
d_no.   Name       Status  Code  Company name
1        John Chan     Y       .         ABC  Ltd.
1        Peter Wong    .       2         .
1        Ann Lee         .       1         .

I use 'infile' and 'input' to read the data. However, the "proc print"
output  is like this:

d_no.   Name       Status  Code  Company name
1        John Chan     Y       .         ABC  Ltd.
1        Peter Wong            2
1        Ann Lee                 1

There is no ' . ' but just a blank to denote the missing value of a
Character variable. Are there any methods such that ' . ' can be printed out
to denote the missing value? Thanks very much!!

YCF