topic Re: enter data with long char in SAS Programming

enter data with long char

Ronein — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:06:08 GMT

Hello
I am creating a data set that has long characters.
It is in Hebrew language.
I don't know why in the output data set I have only 3 rows while I entered 6 rows


Data tbl;
informat x $200.;
input x $200.;
cards;
אאאאא אאאאא
הההההה דדדדד דד בב
כככככ ררררר ייי ככ
ייייי סססס ככ
ייי עעע כככ+גגגג  גג
כככעי גגגג
;
run;

Re: enter data with long char

novinosrin — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:12:04 GMT

Hi @Ronein That's happening bcoz of automative FLOWOVER default in reading variable length records that makes SAS to read the next dataline into the input buffer to read until the specified length defined in the informat. To override that, you need TRUNCOVER


Data tbl;
infile cards truncover;
informat x $200.;
input x $200.;
cards;
אאאאא אאאאא
הההההה דדדדד דד בב
כככככ ררררר ייי ככ
ייייי סססס ככ
ייי עעע כככ+גגגג  גג
כככעי גגגג
;
run;

BTW, Shalom! I love Hebrew!

Re: enter data with long char

Ronein — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:18:29 GMT

Thank you so much! Let's start learn Hebrew...lol