I may be wrong, but UTF8 contains all the wlatin1 characters, so there should be no errors. Have you had errors? ... View more

Maybe you could try the DBSASLABEL=NONE libname option. This will blank out any RDBMS labels, and let SAS use the column names instead. /Linus ... View more

Thank you Shane, I hope in the future SAS add some tool to automate the Stored Processes maked and changed from EG. Bye Costas ... View more

Thank you very much. Costas ... View more

Yes - a looping DO WHILE ( ); END; code paragraph will do the job quite nicely. Suggested Google advanced search argument for the SAS.COM support site which has many code samples as well as SAS-hosted DOC: parse multiple data lines input site:sas.com Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. Example reference from search results: Using SAS® to Parse External Data Andrew T. Kuligowski, The Nielsen Company http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2008/190-2008.pdf ... View more