Reading Multiple Records in Any Order

Creating a Single Observation from Multiple Records

Reading Multiple Records in Any Order

Now direct the input pointer to the third record and read the values for City, State, and Zip respectively. (NOTE: The values for City contain eight characters or less and do not contain embedded blanks.) Do not close the INPUT statement with a semicolon.

1---+----10---+----20---
ALEX BEDWAN
609 WILTON MEADOW DRIVE
GARNER NC 27529
XM034 FLOYD


     data perm.patients;
        infile patdata;
        input #4 ID $5.
              #1 Fname $ Lname $
              #2 Address $23.

Creating a Single Observation from Multiple Records
Reading Multiple Records in Any Order