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

Reading Missing Values

Reading Missing Values at the End of a Record

Suppose that the third person represented in the raw data file below did not answer the questions about how many department store credit cards she has and about how often she uses them.

Raw Data File with Missing Values at the End of a Record

Because the missing values occur at the end of the record, you can use the MISSOVER option in the INFILE statement to assign the missing values to variables with missing data at the end of a record. The MISSOVER option prevents SAS from reading the next record if, when using list input, it does not find values in the current line ...