Date:         Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:33:54 -0500
Reply-To:     "Jeffrey P. Crabb" <jeff_crabb@MASTERCARD.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Jeffrey P. Crabb" <jeff_crabb@MASTERCARD.COM>
Subject:      Re: data delimited by tab
Comments: To: xhu@USC.EDU

If you are using the standard ASCII character set, you can use the
hexadecimal representation of the tab ('09'x).  Check your operating system
documentation and look up the horizontal tab (HT) character hex code.  It
will be a different character sequence if you are using a mainframe.

    FILENAME nput './your_input_filename_here' ;

DATA work.readdata ;

    INFILE nput dlm='09'x <other infile options like dsd, truncover, etc.> ;

    INPUT .... ;

RUN ;

Jeff Crabb