Hi John,

I believe PROC IMPORT writes dedicated data step code to the log that you can reuse.

Regards - Jim. -- Jim Groeneveld, Netherlands Statistician, SAS consultant home.hccnet.nl/jim.groeneveld

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:26:53 -0600, John F. Regus <jfregus@IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote:

>Greetings all who have helped me in the past. > >Here is something that has been bothering me unending and is causing me sleepless afternoons. > >I know that I can import just about any file imaginable into SAS using the import function using SAS Windows 9.1.3. >However, when trying to get comma seperated values moved all at once into the new SAS file, >I can (or only know how to get) the data for one variable moved at a time. I would like to do a mass >move of all the data from the input file into the new SAS file. Is there a way to do this? Because once > I have imported the file into a new SAS file, established variable names, established formats, informats, >variable lengths, etc. I would like to be able to save the settings for the next like file that I want to import into what I have >already slaved over doing, defining, etc., without repeating the process. > >Is there a way to do this? > >Waiting with bad breath on the sidelines. > >The Old SYS/390 guy >"SAS was originally invented for computer performance and capacity planning for the SYS/3x0 IBM machines... >they sure have taken it into new features that are amazing"