William W. Viergever wrote [in part]: > and Jack Hamilton wrote in part]: > >I'll let Karsten tell you how to do it with Perl. > > If not his Self, then stat-man David C.? > > (it's OK Dave, you got invited to)

Well, since you asked so politely... you can strip those pesky carriage returns from Dan's data.txt file *and* save the old file in a backup form like this:

perl -i.bak -lpe 's|\r$||' data.txt

Yes, there are some oddities scattered in there. But don't ask about them in a SAS mailing list! :-)

Still, as has been pointed out, avoiding the problem in the first place is the best solution!

David -- David Cassell, OAO Corp. Cassell.David@epa.gov Senior computing specialist mathematical statistician