Here are a few lines of data.
q 2016 55 59 580067.12 89453.03 74579.31 63005.34 54211.66
q 2016 60 64 826983.94119020.88 99145.49 85347.23 75223.34
q 2016 65 69 1080400.00139847.91116260.10103226.14 93063.24
q 2016 70 74 1086917.25120158.78100291.15 91782.05 85081.34
I saved that in a file called "junk.txt". The follow bits of SAS code behave differently on those lines.
filename junk "junk.txt";
data temp;
infile junk ;
input
@1 TYPE $ 2.
@4 year 4.
@9 age1 2.
@12 age2 2.
@15 foo 10.2
@25 bar 9.2
@34 YSD1-YSD3 9.2;
run;
proc print;
data temp;
infile junk ;
input
@1 TYPE $ 2.
@4 year 4.
@9 age1 2.
@12 age2 2.
@15 foo 10.2
@25 bar 9.2
@34 YSD1 9.2
@43 YSD2 9.2
@52 YSD3 9.2;
run;
proc print;
I get an erroneous read from the first input, and a correct read from the second input. Trying to figure out what is going on. I actually have a lot more variables than 3, so being able to use the shortcut syntax would be useful to me.
A colleague of mine was familiar with syntax I was not familiar with. The behavior of the following is the same as the behavior of my second technique.