Removing unwanted characters from imported data

[Jack1]

Hello,

I want to import the following data into SAS:

Description	Q12013	Q22013
Industrial aggregate including unclassified businesses [00-91N]  (5,6)	15074374	15463301
Industrial aggregate excluding unclassified businesses [11-91N]  (5,6)	14835632	15219329
Goods producing industries [11-33N]  (7)	2700602	2829935

My question: I want to import the Description column but I do not want to include the numbers/letters/commas in brackets (whether squared or round). I also don't want the brackets. How do I code an infile statement to exclude all these components so I only have written descriptions in my SAS dataset? Thanks Jack

[Reeza]

Look at the SCAN function with the [ as the delimiter.