You can also specify the MEMTYPE= option, enclosed in parentheses, immediately
after the name of a file. In parentheses, MEMTYPE= identifies the type of the
filename that just precedes it. When you use this form of the option, it overrides the
MEMTYPE= option that follows the slash in the SELECT statement, but it must
match the MEMTYPE= option in the PROC CIMPORT statement.
Alias
MTYPE=, MT=
Default
ALL
Restriction
MEMTYPE= is valid only when you import a SAS library.
CIMPORT Problems: Importing Transport Files
About Transport Files and Encodings
The character data in a transport file is created in either of two types of encodings:
•the UTF-8 encoding ...
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