SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9, Third Edition

Reading Repeating Blocks of Data

Overview

Each record in the file Tempdata contains three blocks of data. Each block contains a date followed by the day's high temperature in a small city located in the southern United States.

Raw Data File Tempdata

You could write a DATA step that reads each record and creates three different Date and Temp variables.

Three Date and Temp Variables

Alternatively, you could create a separate observation for each block of data in a record. This data set is better structured for analysis and reporting with ...