topic Re: Skipping bad lines in infile in SAS Programming

Skipping bad lines in infile

tomcmacdonald — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:37:33 GMT

Is it possible to inform SAS to skip faulty lines in an infile statement? I'm trying to parse a dirty sequential mainframe file and it's stopping on the bad record.

Re: Skipping bad lines in infile

Tom — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:52:04 GMT

Can you tell which are the bad lines?

data want ;
  infile myfile;
  input @ ;
  if index(_infile_,'BAD LINE') then delete;
  ....
run;