Sometimes you need to move the pointer explicitly, and you can do that by using the column
pointer, @n, where n is the number of the column SAS should move to.
In the preceding program (INPUT ParkName $ 1-22 State $ Year @40 Acreage COMMA9.;), the column pointer @40 tells SAS to move to column 40 before reading
the value for Acreage.
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