https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/file-type-file-to-csv-or-sas-dataset/m-p/710950#M26838 <P>Hi,</P><P>I have a file which is file type. I can open with notepad and word but I want to convert this to csv or a sas dataset. Can I do the file type to CSV or into SAS dataset?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>thanks in advance.</P> Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:06:48 GMT Smitha9 2021-01-13T00:06:48Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/file-type-file-to-csv-or-sas-dataset/m-p/710950#M26838 <P>Hi,</P><P>I have a file which is file type. I can open with notepad and word but I want to convert this to csv or a sas dataset. Can I do the file type to CSV or into SAS dataset?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>thanks in advance.</P> Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:06:48 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/file-type-file-to-csv-or-sas-dataset/m-p/710950#M26838 Smitha9 2021-01-13T00:06:48Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/file-type-file-to-csv-or-sas-dataset/m-p/710951#M26839 Sounds like you have a dat or text file that you want to be CSV. <BR />You would first need to import the data, which depends a bit on what your delimiter is and how the file is structured.<BR />A couple of different options are in the post below:<BR /><A href="https://www.sascrunch.com/importing-text-files.html" target="_blank">https://www.sascrunch.com/importing-text-files.html</A><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /> Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:18:01 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/file-type-file-to-csv-or-sas-dataset/m-p/710951#M26839 Reeza 2021-01-13T00:18:01Z