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*  Research Computing Services                            *;
*  Introduction to SAS                                    *;
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*  Input Data From a File                                 *;
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* Use infile BEFORE the input statement;                  *;
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* Input statement contains the column names               *;
* For numeric columns, specify a name                     *;
* For the columns containing character data, add $ after  *;
*    the name of the column                               *;
* Within the input file use spaces to separate the data   *;
* "missover" skips over missing data                      *;
* For Mac, you need to checn the blackslash to slash      *;
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* After the data statement is executed, navigate to the   *;
* Work library in the Explorer window and check the data  *;
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data mydata;
   infile 'Datasets/mydata.dat' missover;
   input id name $;