Cannot import text delimited file with unusual characters in SAS

Question

Hi I am trying to import a tab delimited file in SAS that looks like this,

Names   Points
Sumit1  10
Sumit2  20
SUmit4  30
SUmit5  85
SUmit6  90
SUmit7  39
hfgö®q-±òSÀ®téîÓVU«‘îj'n5E•d÷Yb#­AK$®SŽ†ÿ-ÍKÕw¿óå0"¤h—t0Ld        89
SUmit8  48
SUmit9  70
SUmit10 20
SUmit11 90

The first row represents column names.

I am using the following code to import the file,

data names;
infile "C:xxxxxxxx\names.txt" 
delimiter='09'x MISSOVER DSD lrecl=32767 firstobs=2;
informat names $150.;
informat Points best32.;
format names $150.;
format Points best12.;
input names $
Points;
run;

and the sas data set after import looks like the following:

Names                                                     Points
Sumit1                                                  10
Sumit2                                                  20
SUmit4                                                  30
SUmit5                                                  85
SUmit6                                                  90
SUmit7                                                      39
hfgö®q-±òSÀ®téîÓVU«‘îj'n5E•d÷Yb#­AK$®SŽ†ÿ-ÍKÕw¿óå0"¤h—t0Ld             .

So basically all the rows are not getting imported in sas and it stops at row 7 because of the presence of some unusual characters (I don't know what what this characters are called).

There are 1000 files like this that I need to import. So I am using a macro to import the files. Can somebody please help me how can I import this type of files in SAS.

Answer 1

Try this code....

DATA names;
LENGTH Names $ 91 Points 8 ;
FORMAT Names  $CHAR91. Points  BEST2. ;
INFORMAT Names  $CHAR91. Points           BEST2. ;
INFILE 'C:xxxxxxxx\names.txt'
LRECL=32767 ENCODING="LATIN1" TERMSTR=CRLF DLM='7F'x MISSOVER DSD ;
INPUT Names : $CHAR91. Points : ?? BEST2. ;
RUN;