Chapter Summary
Text Summary
Multiple Records per Observation
Information for one observation
can be spread out over several records. You can write one INPUT
statement that contains line pointer controls to specify the
record(s) from which values are read.
Reading Multiple Records Sequentially
The
forward slash (/) line pointer control is used to read multiple
records sequentially. Each time a / pointer is encountered, the
input pointer advances to the next line.
Reading Multiple Records Non-Sequentially
The
#n line pointer control is
used to read multiple records non-sequentially. The #n specifies the absolute number of the
line to which you want to move the pointer.
Combining Line Pointer Controls
The / line pointer control ...
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