https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deliter-For-creating-tab-delimted-file-SAS/m-p/73440#M15821 Hi , <BR /> What is the delimter for createing a tab delimted file in SAS ? is it X'09' or X'05' ? I google but google created a confusion ? Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:34:49 GMT er_awasthi 2009-09-28T04:34:49Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deliter-For-creating-tab-delimted-file-SAS/m-p/73440#M15821 Hi , <BR /> What is the delimter for createing a tab delimted file in SAS ? is it X'09' or X'05' ? I google but google created a confusion ? Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:34:49 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deliter-For-creating-tab-delimted-file-SAS/m-p/73440#M15821 er_awasthi 2009-09-28T04:34:49Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deliter-For-creating-tab-delimted-file-SAS/m-p/73441#M15822 That will depend on the codepage you're using - but hex 05 sounds very familiar <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:38:00 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deliter-For-creating-tab-delimted-file-SAS/m-p/73441#M15822 Patrick 2009-09-28T08:38:00Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deliter-For-creating-tab-delimted-file-SAS/m-p/73442#M15823 Yep, it will depend entirely on your system encoding.<BR /> <BR /> Generally for ASCII systems use '09'x, for EBCDIC use '05'x<BR /> <BR /> Cheers from Portugal.<BR /> <BR /> Daniel Santos @ <A href="http://www.cgd.pt" target="_blank">www.cgd.pt</A>. Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:58:27 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deliter-For-creating-tab-delimted-file-SAS/m-p/73442#M15823 DanielSantos 2009-09-28T09:58:27Z