Reading the text file incorrectly in sas - sas

Question

Problem Statement: I have a text file and I want to read it using SAS INFILE function. But SAS is not giving me the proper output.
Text File:
Akash 18 19 20
Tejas 20 16
Shashank 16 20
Meera 18 20
The Code that I have tried:
DATA Arr;
INFILE "/folders/myfolders/personal/SAS_Array .txt" missover;
INPUT Name$ SAS DS R;
RUN;
PROC PRINT DATA=arr;
RUN;
While the result i got is :
Table of Contents
Obs Name SAS DS R
1 Akash 18 19 20
2 Tejas 20 16 .
3 Shashank16 20 .
4 Meera 18 20 .
Which is improper. So what is wrong with the code? I need to read the file in SAS with the same sequence of marks as in text file. Please help.
Expected result:
Table of Contents
Obs Name SAS DS R
1 Akash 18 19 20
2 Tejas . 20 16
3 Shashank16 20 .
4 Meera 18 . 20
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If that text file is tab-delimited, you should specify the delimiter in the infile statement and use the dsd option to account for missing values:
DATA Arr;
INFILE "/folders/myfolders/personal/SAS_Array .txt" missover dlm='09'x dsd;
INPUT Name $ SAS DS R;
RUN;
PROC PRINT DATA=arr;
RUN;
EDIT: after editing, your sample text file now looks fixed-width rather than space-delimited. In that case you should be using column input:
DATA Arr;
INFILE "/folders/myfolders/personal/SAS_Array .txt" missover;
INPUT Name $1-9 SAS 10-12 DS 13-15 R 16-18;
RUN;
example with datalines:
DATA Arr;
INFILE datalines missover;
INPUT Name $1-9 SAS 10-12 DS 13-15 R 16-18;
datalines;
Akash 18 19 20
Tejas 20 16
Shashank 16 20
Meera 18 20
RUN;