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Skipping over leading lines: FIRSTOBS=
The FIRSTOBS= option is useful when you have a data file that contains descriptive text or additional information within the first lines of the file. Below is an example that tells SAS to start reading data on the fourth line of the input file.data sti90; infile '/usr/shared/sb/90race.dat' FIRSTOBS=4; input year fips age wmalh wfemnh bmalnh; run;