Reading Multiple Records to Create a Single Observation
How the Data Records Are Structured
An earlier example
(see Reading Character Data That Contains Embedded Blanks) shows data for several observations
that are contained in a single record of raw data:
1023 David Shaw red 189 165
This INPUT statement
reads all the data values arranged across a single record:
input IdNumber 1-4 Name $ 6-23 Team $ StartWeight EndWeight;
Now, consider the opposite situation: when information for a single observation is not contained in a single record of raw data but is scattered across several records. For example, the health and fitness club data could be constructed in such a way that the information about a single member is spread across several records ...
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