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;

Anbu Arasu <aarumugam@STTHOM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU AS.EDU> cc: Sent by: "SAS(r) Subject: Reading data having space Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.U GA.EDU>

02/27/04 03:54 PM Please respond to 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 ;