Mixing Input Styles
Evaluating your raw data and choosing the most appropriate input
style is a very important task. You have already worked with three
input styles for reading raw data.
Input Styles and the Types of Information They
Read
|
Input Style
|
Reads
|
|---|---|
|
Column
|
standard data values in fixed
fields
|
|
Formatted
|
standard and nonstandard data
values in fixed fields
|
|
List
|
data values that are not
arranged in fixed fields, but are separated by blanks or other
delimiters
|
With some file layouts, you
might need to mix input styles in the same INPUT statement in order
to read the data correctly.
Look at the raw data file below
and think about how to combine input styles to read these
values.
Raw Data Showing Mixed Input ...
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