BIS524 Chapter 1

Using informats with list input
Consider the following data:

INPUT ID LASTNAME $ DOB HEIGHT WEIGHT GENDER $ AGE;  
DATALINES;  
1 SMITH 1/23/66 68 144 M 26  
2 JONES 3/14/60 78 202 M 32  
3 DOE 11/26/47 62 99 F 45  
4 WASHINGTON 8/1/70 66 101 F 22

Here are a few problems associated with reading the data with "plain" list input:

The default length of all variables is 8 bytes
Thus, LASTNAME will be truncated
and GENDER will use 8 bytes of disk space to store a single character
The data for DOB is in the form mm/dd/yy (is the slash legal for list input?)