None of these answers are necessarily wrong - there are, indeed, correct. However, regardless of the number of records, the KISS principle still reigns supreme. The simplest answer is usally the best AND the most efficient. PROC IMPORT has one advantage, perhaps, in that it includes the INFORMAT and FORMAT statements but in this case, given the simplicity of the records and the blessedness of the DSD option, it is an unnecessary complication to an otherwise very simple act. Please remember, fellow SASsers - this is exactly what good old version 5.13 was built around - bullding SAS data sets from flat files. It did the job just fine then and can do so now in v9. Cheers!
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