topic Re: Problem - Proc export to csv file - file suddenly makes weird lineshifts in SAS Programming

Problem - Proc export to csv file - file suddenly makes weird lineshifts

MetteSF — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:15:11 GMT

The code below has worked for a couple of months. Today it suddenly makes weird lineshifts in the output. (and it is not because the file is that big)

proc export data=fdtdwh.t_AUM_DETAILS

outfile='\\s64q600\Eisam\COGNOS\DATA\CSV data files\t__AUM_DETAILSxxx.CSV' dbms=csv

replace;

run;

I attached a picture of the output.. I have never experienced this before, neither have my colleagues.. Please help quickly

I have tried to rename the output and delete the existing csvfile - nothing worked..

I am using SAS EG ver7.1

Re: Problem - Proc export to csv file - file suddenly makes weird lineshifts

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:32:07 GMT

Inspect the csv with a proper text editor (notepad++ or similar). Use hex display if normal text does not immediately give you a clue.

Re: Problem - Proc export to csv file - file suddenly makes weird lineshifts

RW9 — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:43:38 GMT

I would say your source data contains special characters. We had this with one of our database providers, entry people were putting returns and tabs in the data entry fields and the database was not stripping them out. So export ran fine for a while, then someone entered a return character and suddenly export broke.

Look for '0A'x, '0D'x, for instances of line feed carriage returns for instance.

Re: Problem - Proc export to csv file - file suddenly makes weird lineshifts

Doc_Duke — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 15:11:06 GMT

Ditto RW9's comments. I've had this happen more than once with .csv files that were exported from Excel. Inspect the input file.

Re: Problem - Proc export to csv file - file suddenly makes weird lineshifts

ballardw — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 15:31:42 GMT

@Doc_Duke wrote:

Ditto RW9's comments. I've had this happen more than once with .csv files that were exported from Excel. Inspect the input file.

I would bet a small stack of quarters that your data originated as Excel or other spreadsheet and has cells someone used "ctrl enter" to create multi-line data in text.