SAS went to a new line when INPUT statement reached past the end of a line

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SAS has powerful features for reading data out of text files (such as CSV, TSV, datalines, and various other formats), but while reading text, you may find your data set is missing rows and the log has this non-intuitive error message (well, “note”): NOTE: SAS went to a new line when INPUT statement reached past […]

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