Bert,

This would output values 2,4 only:

data a;input / @1 abc $1.; lines; 1 2 3 4 5 ; -- rasanen@sprynet.com - Microsoft MVP Web Site: http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/rasanen/ ~ American Express TRS

Bert Ventresca wrote in message <01BCDFA4.CF163160@cpsbv.cciw.ca>... Is there any easy way in sas to read only every second record or every whatever record from a data file via an input statement? Each record in the file has parameters and I am presently using all the data in the file,I would like to run my program using only every other data record or maybe every 3rd record only. Many thanks Bert