By using stopover, missover is used to read next record without stopping.

If reading a variable length file with fixed input, how
would you prevent SAS from reading the next record if the
last variable didn’t have a value?

Question Posted / nitin

Answer Posted / nitin

By using stopover, missover is used to read next record
without stopping.

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