https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/putnames/m-p/27018#M4854 dbms option should be dlm for delimited and delimiter='09'x I think. <BR /> <BR /> proc export data=sashelp.class outfile='c:\temp\test.txt' <B>dbms=dlm</B> replace;<BR /> <B>delimiter='09'x;</B><BR /> putnames = no;<BR /> run; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:02:34 GMT Reeza 2010-11-02T22:02:34Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/putnames/m-p/27017#M4853 Hi all,<BR /> <BR /> I am trying to export a data table to txt file WITHOUT the column headers. I feel like I am doing this correctly but I keep getting the statement is not valid or used out of order error. What am I doing wrong?<BR /> <BR /> PROC EXPORT DATA= WORK.Final<BR /> <BR /> OUTFILE= "C:\Documents and Settings\dubauaw\Desktop\r1.txt" <BR /> DBMS=TAB REPLACE;<BR /> putnames = no;<BR /> RUN; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:44:57 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/putnames/m-p/27017#M4853 Aar684 2010-11-02T18:44:57Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/putnames/m-p/27018#M4854 dbms option should be dlm for delimited and delimiter='09'x I think. <BR /> <BR /> proc export data=sashelp.class outfile='c:\temp\test.txt' <B>dbms=dlm</B> replace;<BR /> <B>delimiter='09'x;</B><BR /> putnames = no;<BR /> run; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:02:34 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/putnames/m-p/27018#M4854 Reeza 2010-11-02T22:02:34Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/putnames/m-p/27019#M4855 I found PUTNAMES documented with SAS 9.2 -- I too received the same error when using it with SAS 9.1.3.<BR /> <BR /> Scott Barry<BR /> SBBWorks, Inc. Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:24:28 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/putnames/m-p/27019#M4855 sbb 2010-11-02T22:24:28Z