Handbook of SAS DATA Step Programming

131Data Input and Output

byage, number of people in the household, and the number of children in

the household. Program 8.3 reads the CH8_3.TXT le by using the list input

method.

CH8_3.txt:

123456789012345678901234567890

James Miller 26 3 1

Patricia Davis 30 4 1

John Jackson 31 2 0

Mary Martinez 32 4 2

Program 8.3:

data ex8_3;

infile "W:\SAS_Book\dat\ch8_3.txt";

input fname $

lname $

age

family

children;

run;

title 'Using the list input method';

proc print data = ex8_3;

run;

Output from Program 8.3:

Using the list input method

Obs fname lname age family children

1 James Miller 26 3 1

2 Patricia Davis 30 4 1

3 John Jackson 31 2 0

4 ...