From your file name I suspect you are doing this on some sort of quaraterly basis. I would try to make this program useable for the next quarter by working with the data source to make sure all my variable lengths are long enough to take any data sent later. There's nothing liking having to keep modifying programs to add 4 characters here and 10 there or change a character to numeric because my first data set didn't have any values for an occasionally used field as the data content changes. Also a good idea to examine variable names generated as some data sources may give you column headings that generate SAS variable names you don't like or are longer than you really want to use. So you can use this opportunity to make short variables and assign labels that document and make them easier to use.
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