If your CSVs have a field name row as the first record and IF you know The name of the field(s) you want to read. The data type The informat You can use a program like that described here http://www.lexjansen.com/pharmasug/2011/TT/PharmaSUG-2011-TT04.pdf to read the files. If you have many files you can read them all at once, gathering the fields of interest from each. If you don't have the field name row you could still use a similar technique but it would be simplified by just specifying the field relative positions. You will still need to know the type and informat. You won't actually need to specify informat for most fields as most character and numeric fields will be read with the SAS default.
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