Date:         Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:16:09 -0400
Reply-To:     "Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>" <nospam@HOWLES.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>" <nospam@HOWLES.COM>
Subject:      Re: Reading tab delimited files

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:40:26 -0400, Nat Wooding <Nathaniel.Wooding@DOM.COM>
wrote:

>on the infile statement, specify
>
>dlm='09'x

That's right for any ASCII platform. On a mainframe you are working with
EBCDIC, so make it '05'x instead.

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>How do I read I tab-delimited file into sas? I tried delimiter=tab and
>dsd delimiter=tab on the infile statement, but it is only reading in the
>1st variable.
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