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*This shows how to read inline fixed ascii data.
* Ray.

DATA LIST /ID 1-3 SEX 5 (A) AGE 7-8 OPINION1 TO OPINION5 10-14.
BEGIN DATA
001 F 27 12341
002 M 53 23121
003 F 60 11 11
004 M 41 21211
005 F 19 4  43
END DATA.
LIST.

* Note that missing data correctly come out as missing.

* Assuming the above data were in a data.txt file in c:\\temp\\ folder, the following line would read the file.
DATA LIST FILE="C:\\temp\\data.txt" /ID 1-3 SEX 5 (A) AGE 7-8 OPINION1 TO OPINION5 10-14..