Question 57 :

 The contents of the raw data file FURNITURE are listed below:

 --------10-------20-------30

 chair,,table

 chair,couch,table

 The following SAS program is submitted:

 data stock;

 infile 'furniture' dsd;

 input item1 $ item2 $ item3 $;

 run;

 Which one of the following is the value of the variable named ITEM2 in the first observation of the output data set?

1. table
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 Correct Answer : 4

 Exp : with DSD option two consecutive delimiters are not consider as one, so missing value is assigned to item2 and as item2 is character variable it has missing character value " ".

 Without DSD Item2 will be table. Hopefully that helps.

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