Import SPSS generated SAS files, format question

zimu94681 — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:17:11 GMT

I am trying to import SPSS files into SAS. SPSS automatically generated a SAS dataset and also a code file of all formats.

I wanted to run the format codes to apply all formats to the dataset. The formats codes are like this:

libname library '\xxxxxxx' ;

proc format library = library ;

value followup

0 = 'Baseline'

1 = '1st Followup'

2 = '2nd Followup'

3 = '3rd Followup'

4 = '4th Followup'

5 = '5th Followup'

6 = '6th Followup'

7 = '7th Followup'

8 = '8th Followup'

9 = '9th Followup' ;

proc datasets library = library ;

modify dataset;

format followup followup.;

quit;

I just used one format for illustration purpose.

However, I got an error like this:

"ERROR: File LIBRARY.DATASET cannot be updated because its encoding does not match the

session encoding or the file is in a format native to another host, such as WINDOWS_32."

Can anyone help me to solve the problem?

Thank you very much!!

Re: Import SPSS generated SAS files, format question

SAS_Cares — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:28:57 GMT