REPEATING DATA

REPEATING DATA reads input cases whose records contain repeating groups of data. For each repeating group, REPEATING DATA builds one output case in the active dataset.

REPEATING DATA [FILE=file]

 [/ENCODING='encoding specification']

 /STARTS=beg col[-end col] /OCCURS={value  }
                                   {varname}

 [/LENGTH={value  }] [/CONTINUED[=beg col[-end col]]]
          {varname}

 [/ID={col loc}=varname] [/{TABLE  }] 
      {format }            {NOTABLE}

 /DATA=variable specifications

Release History

Release 16.0

• ENCODING subcommand added for Unicode support.

Example

INPUT PROGRAM.
DATA LIST / SEQNUM 2-4 NUMPERS 6-7 NUMVEH 9-10.
REPEATING DATA STARTS=12 /OCCURS=NUMVEH
 /DATA=MAKE 1-8 (A) MODEL 9 (A) NUMCYL 10.
END INPUT PROGRAM.