/*Published: 11/01/2018*/

*filename inout '/directory/mergers.and.acquisitions.txt';                            /*reading in an un-zipped file*/
filename inout pipe 'gunzip -c /directory/mergers.and.acquisitions.final.link16.txt.gz';   /*reading in a zipped file*/

options nocenter validvarname=upcase;

data hospital;
  infile inout lrecl=15 missover pad;
  input @1  prov_num    $char6.        /*shuffled*/
        @7  group_id    8.
        ;

label
  prov_num = 'Provider Number'
  group_id = 'Identifier to all associated provider numbers'
  ;