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Hi All,

I have serial measurements of air pollution data that are collected
from several places at various points in time. The data are comma
delimited and logged every minute (sample shown below). Apart from the
header which differs, all collection are of similar format having 3
variables - Date, Time and Aerosol. Each file is named with place ID
and date of collection.  Two such successive files for ID1 are named
Man01_030408.txt and Man01_100608.txt as an example.   I have hundreds
of such files and need to automate the import of these files into SAS
and save the file with similar name to the text file. How can I employ
this situation?

Thanks for your input.

Sample data follows.

TrakPro Version 4.00 ASCII Data File
Model:,SidePak Aerosol Monitor
Model Number:,AM510
Serial Number:,10707008
Test ID:,002
Test Abbreviation:,
Start Date:,04/03/2008
Start Time:,12:44:15
Duration (dd:hh:mm:ss):,0:08:37:00
Time constant (seconds):,0
Log Interval (mm:ss):,01:00
Number of points:,517
Notes:,

Date,Time,Aerosol
dd/MM/yyyy,hh:mm:ss,mg/m^3
04/03/2008,12:45:15,0.004
04/03/2008,12:46:15,0.006
04/03/2008,12:47:15,0.003
04/03/2008,12:48:15,0.003
04/03/2008,12:49:15,0.002
04/03/2008,12:50:15,0.004
04/03/2008,12:51:15,0.010
04/03/2008,12:52:15,0.005
04/03/2008,12:53:15,0.016
04/03/2008,12:54:15,0.010