Hi Patrick, This did help and yes the file is a .txt. However, dummy means that it has data but cannot be processed further, the entire records needs to be dropped. After I read the file successfully using the file reader, I make use of slitter to hard code the value present in the variable in row selection I wish to know is there a workaround to strip first and last records. Just like first.variable and last.variable in datastep. The variable here is Mortgage... and if I wish to strip the first header record - I make use of _N_ ~= 1, similarly, I wish to know how to strip the last record of the file rather than hard coding to value or like operator. Thanks,
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