topic Re: Reading in a variable length data set from the main fram to sas errors with packed decimals in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-in-a-variable-length-data-set-from-the-main-fram-to-sas/m-p/400369#M278626 <P>Drop the encoding= option, and use $ebcdic. formats for the strings.</P> Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:59:46 GMT Kurt_Bremser 2017-10-02T17:59:46Z Reading in a variable length data set from the main fram to sas errors with packed decimals https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-in-a-variable-length-data-set-from-the-main-fram-to-sas/m-p/400359#M278625 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 01:21:24 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-in-a-variable-length-data-set-from-the-main-fram-to-sas/m-p/400359#M278625 martystoked 2017-10-26T01:21:24Z Re: Reading in a variable length data set from the main fram to sas errors with packed decimals https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-in-a-variable-length-data-set-from-the-main-fram-to-sas/m-p/400369#M278626 <P>Drop the encoding= option, and use $ebcdic. formats for the strings.</P> Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:59:46 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-in-a-variable-length-data-set-from-the-main-fram-to-sas/m-p/400369#M278626 Kurt_Bremser 2017-10-02T17:59:46Z Re: Reading in a variable length data set from the main fram to sas errors with packed decimals https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-in-a-variable-length-data-set-from-the-main-fram-to-sas/m-p/400383#M278627 <P>That worked thanks!!!!!</P> Mon, 02 Oct 2017 18:25:52 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-in-a-variable-length-data-set-from-the-main-fram-to-sas/m-p/400383#M278627 martystoked 2017-10-02T18:25:52Z