| Reading Variable-Length Records |
| Reading Variable-Length Fields |
| Holding the First Record |
Let's see how we can use reclen to determine
the length of Name in each record. You know that the values
for each employee ID number are always located in columns 1-4 of every record.
So the INPUT statement reads the values for ID.
You must hold the record with the single trailing @
line-hold specifier until the values
for |
| 1---V----10---+----20 |
| 1802JOHNSON2123 |
| 1803BARKER2142 |
| 1804EDMUNDSON2325 |
| 1805RIVERS2543 |
| 1806MASON2646 |
| 1807JACKSON2049 |
| 1808LEVY2856 |
| 1809THOMAS2222 |
data perm.phones;
infile phondat length=reclen;
input ID 4. @;
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