Hi Jen, I've had to find a way around this problem for importing from an excel file. So if you can open or paste the .txt into excel and use the "text to columns" option to break the columns out in excel, you can use the following strategy. You have to specify the type of all the variables you are worried might be imported incorrectly, but you won't have to specify the type of every variable you're importing. LIBNAME mylibname EXCEL "mypath.xlsx"; data dataset_name; set mylibname.excelrange (dbSasType=(myVar1=NUMERIC myVar2=NUMERIC myVar3=NUMERIC)); run; LIBNAME mylibname CLEAR; Basically this makes the excel workbook at "mypath.xlsx" a library (or folder), similar to your work library. It will include SAS datasets for each range in the excel file. By running the above code without running the last line (LIBNAME mylibname CLEAR), you can see the mylibname excel library in your explorer window and check the name of the range that you will want to import (called "excelrange" in the code above). Hope this helps! Max
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