https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-read-Nested-JSON-file-into-SAS/m-p/428837#M105894 <P>Open the file in a text editor and look around line 331 in the file for something that looks out of place.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>There may be a chance that your current encoding (language/ character set) isn't compatible with the file contents such as finding Chinese characters in the data when not expected.</P> Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:54:36 GMT ballardw 2018-01-18T15:54:36Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-read-Nested-JSON-file-into-SAS/m-p/428776#M105880 <P>Hi All,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I am trying to read JSON file using LIBNAME engine, after reading one complete Observation SAS is throwing a ERROR saying</P><P>Illegal Character encounter.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Please let me know how to overcome this ERROR.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Krishna Reddy<span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="ERROR_JSON1.jpg" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17937iD5B1B85CAF91E63E/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="ERROR_JSON1.jpg" alt="ERROR_JSON1.jpg" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:22:02 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-read-Nested-JSON-file-into-SAS/m-p/428776#M105880 bvkreddy053 2018-01-18T13:22:02Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-read-Nested-JSON-file-into-SAS/m-p/428837#M105894 <P>Open the file in a text editor and look around line 331 in the file for something that looks out of place.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>There may be a chance that your current encoding (language/ character set) isn't compatible with the file contents such as finding Chinese characters in the data when not expected.</P> Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:54:36 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-read-Nested-JSON-file-into-SAS/m-p/428837#M105894 ballardw 2018-01-18T15:54:36Z