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SAS Code Fragments
Reading an electronic codebook and writing an input statement

data test;
  infile "e:\data\attach\dd6429cm.wave1" length=len;
  length junk $ 1 
         varname $ 8 x $ 80;
  input x $varying. len  @;
  if substr(x,1,1) = "D" then do;
    input @1 junk varname varlen varpos1 ;
	varpos2 = varpos1 + varlen - 1;
	output;
  end;
  else
  do;
    input ;
  end;
run;

proc print data=test;
  var varname varpos1 varpos2 ;
run;

data _null_;
  file "d:\temp\sasprog.txt" ;
  set test end=lastobs;
  if _n_ = 1 then put "input " ;
  put " " varname " " varpos1 "-" varpos2 ;
  if lastobs then put ";" ;
run;