Reading Repeating Blocks of Data (5)

Creating Multiple Observations from a Single Record

Reading Repeating Blocks of Data

Completing the DATA Step

You can add a FORMAT statement to the DATA step to display the date or time values with a specified format in the data set. In the FORMAT statement below, the DATEw. format is used to display the values for Date in the form ddmmmyy.

     data perm.april90;  
        infile tempdata;
        input Date : date. HighTemp @@;
        format date date7.;

Raw Data File Tempdata

1---+----10---+----20---+----30--

01APR90 68 02APR90 67 03APR90 70

04APR90 74 05APR90 72 06APR90 73

07APR90 71 08APR90 75 09APR90 76

A RUN statement completes the DATA step.

     data perm.april90;  
        infile tempdata;
        input Date : date. HighTemp @@;
        format date date7.;        
     run;