Date:         Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:20:54 -0500
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From:         Nat Wooding <Nathaniel_Wooding@DOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Reading data having space
Comments: To: Anbu Arasu <aarumugam@STTHOMAS.EDU>
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Anbu

Use the & format modifier as below in the input statement. This and a
couple other modifiers are described in the SAS Language section on
modified list input.

Nat Wooding

data name;

                informat name $12.;
                input name & ;
  datalines;
                John Smith
                David Sheperd
                Raj Singh
                ;
      proc print;run;



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                      02/27/04 03:54 PM
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                      Anbu Arasu






Is it possible to read the full name below, just by having on input
variable in the input statement. I tried different options. It did not
work.
Help please
This is the code.

data name;
  *infile datalines dsd delimiter='';
                input name $ char12.;
  datalines;
                John Smith
                David Sheperd
                Raj Singh
                ;