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

Using List Input

Overview

List input is a powerful tool for reading both standard and nonstandard free-format data.

General form, INPUT statement using list input: INPUT variable <$>; where variable specifies the variable whose value the INPUT statement is to read $ specifies that the variable is a character variable.

Suppose you have an external data file like the one shown below. The file, which is referenced by the fileref Credit, contains the results of a survey on the use of credit cards by males and females in the 18-39 age range.

Raw Data File Creditcard

You need to read the data values for

• gender