my bad.. I've never used this forum before.. so the code that i am now using looks like: data employee; infile ".txt." dlm="," dsd truncover; input id gender $1. salary dollar7. birthdate : mmddyy10. hiredate : mmddyy10. termdate : mmddyy10. maritalstat $1. +1 numdependents $1. +1 promostatus $1.; format salary dollar7. birthdate mmddyy10. hiredate mmddyy10. termdate mmddyy10.; run; it is importing all birthdates. however, now when the salary is 6 numerics instead of 5, like the first 2 lines in the txt photo, the birthdate is showing up as the hiredate, and the hiredate is showing us as the termdate.. suggestions?
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