Date:         Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:45:08 +0800
Reply-To:     mmxell <docdoc1357@TIPGOD.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         mmxell <docdoc1357@TIPGOD.COM>
Organization: Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Subject:      create dataset with added column

Hi,

I want to create a dataset from a .txt file (say desc.txt).  The content of
the file contains only 1 text description(sample as below)
abc
xyz
aaa

I want to create a dataset that has 2 fields: 1)index 2)desc , the result
dataset desired is as follows:
index    desc
1    abc
2    xyz
3    aaa
4    ...
5    ....
and etc.

can I do it in the DATA step?  Thanks for the advice.
mmxell