request for a solution

[Reeza]

Are you learning how to clean data?

Other than that, this would be an exercise in futility. 

My suggestion would be to dump the file to Excel and clean it up by hand. 

There's not a heck of a lot of benefit to reading in a file of this nature, besides learning. It wouldn't be acceptable for a process that needs to be repeated on any sort of regular basis so it's most likely a one time import. 

Log the changes you make in Excel in a document, but fighting with this file will take more effort than it's worth IMO. 

[art297]

The following worked for me. It simply includes a combination of tabs and pipes as delimiters:

data want;
  infile '/folders/myfolders/magnolia.txt' dlm='097c'x dsd;
  informat prefix $2.;
  informat name $25.;
  informat sci_name $25.;
  input prefix name sci_name sale_qty remnant code $ color $;
run;

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com