Date:         Wed, 1 Aug 2007 23:21:53 -0400
Reply-To:     "Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>" <nospam@HOWLES.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>" <nospam@HOWLES.COM>
Subject:      Re: It is very very simple question reading data in sas

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:39:03 -0000, reddy <mail2karna@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>I have two variables   name and   age.
>
> data is
>
>cards;
>ffc ffc ffc 23
>ksds 24
>dsfasdfsdf 34
>ss ss ss 45
>;
>
>i want output like this
>
>
>
> name               age
>
>ffc ffc ffc         23
>
>ksds                24
>
>dsfasdfsdf          34
>
>ss ss ss            45
>
>
>could u please help any one
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>s.karunakar
>Mail: mail2karna@gmail.com

How do you know it is "simple"?

You have received a couple of solutions which may work for the example, but
which are not very general. If there were more fields, especially character
fields, this would be very difficult.

It is unreasonable to have spaces embedded in a field and also use the space
as delimiter. Your file is under-punctuated.

SAS does have a convention which can be used. Use *two or more* blanks
between fields, and code the "&" modifier in the INPUT statement.