A line of a CSV file would not look like the tabular thing you posted.  It would look like this instead: ContactID,LastName,FirstName,Company,MailingName,Country,MailingAddressLine1,MailingAddressLine2,MailingAddressLine3,MailingAddressLine4,MailingCity,MailingState,MailingZip,MailingZip4,MailingAddress,PrimaryPhone Either your file is using TAB and not COMMA as the delimiter and when you pasted in the tabs the forum editor thought you wanted to make a table.   If so then just add the DELIMITER statement to your PROC IMPORT code. delimiter='09'x; Or more likely you have accidentally allowed Excel (or some other spreadsheet program) to open the file instead of opening it with a TEXT editor that will show you what the file actually looks like.  Perhaps the delimiter is a semi-colon or something else. ... View more