Something like below appears to work. filename mysource temp; data _null_; file mysource; put '\UK\CL\FCL\RCL\UCL\CO2\IGAP\CA\RCA\UCA\MG\RMG\UMG\P\RP\UP\URIC\RUR\UUR'; put '\NBIL\BILT\FBIL\BC\BU\CHOL\FCHO\TRIG\FTRI\HDL\LDLC\LDLD\TP\FPRT\TPEL\RPR'; put '#PREL\UPRO\TPELR\SFPR\ALB\RMA\RAMA\UMA\UMAR\FLEX\FALBC\MYOG\TRAN'; put '\NBIL\BILT\FBIL\BC\BU\CHOL\FCHO\TRIG\FTRI\HDL\LDLC\LDLD\TP\FPRT\TPEL\RPR'; put '#PREL\UPRO\TPELR\SFPR\ALB\RMA\RAMA\UMA\UMAR\FLEX\FALBC\MYOG\TRAN'; run; data test; infile mysource termstr=crlf dlm='\' recfm=n lrecl=256; input code :$20. @@; code=compress(code,'0a'x); output; run; proc print data=test; run; ... View more