Reading a TAB delimited file
Read an external file into a SAS data set when the variables in the external file are separated with a TAB character. Note: On ASCII systems (PC, UNIX, MAC, VMS) the hex representation of a TAB character is '09'x. On EBCDIC systems (VM, MVS, VSE) the hex representation of a TAB is '05'x.
data _null_;
file 'c:\temp\tabdlm.txt';
put "Samuel B. Thompson" '09'x "04/28/1995" '09'x "Raleigh";
put "Suzy B. Thomspon" '09'x "5/1/1993" '09'x "Wake Forest";
run;
data info;
infile 'c:\temp\tabdlm.txt' DSD dlm='09'x truncover;
input name :$30. DOB :mmddyy8. city :$20.;
run;
proc print;
format dob mmddyy8.; run;