How to convert sas dataset file to TXT file. Thanks.

[Tom]

How about a CSV file?

data _null_;
  set have;
  file "filename.csv" dsd ;
  put (_all_) (+0);
run;

With a little more work you can add a header row that shows the names of the variables also.

[Patrick]

...or Proc Export or macro %ds2csv

[ballardw]

With a couple of ways to create CSV mentioned it may be time to ask "what flavor of text file?" Other than CSV (comman separated values) there are other characters used to separate each value. Common choices are tab and pipe (|) characters, less frequently colons or semicolons. Sometimes multiple characters.

Or maybe fixed width where each column (variable) has text start in the some character position.

Or maybe something less common like Named output where you indicate a variable name followed by an = and the value, which would include quotes when there are spaces: somevar="This a named value"

Or perhaps other specific text file formats like JSON, XML or similar.

Or even a report layout?

[SASKiwi]

What's the reason for converting to a text file? If we knew what you are planning to use them for we can offer more informed advice.