Question

Purpose of double trailing@@ in Input Statement ?

Answer 1

The double trailing sign (@@)tells SAS rather than advancing to a new record, hold the current input record for the execution of the next INPUT statement.

DATA Readin;

   Input Name $ Score @@;   

   cards;

Sam 25 David 30 Ram 35

Deeps 20 Daniel 47 Pars 84

;

RUN;

The output is shown below :

Double Trailing

Double Trailing