topic Re: UTF-8 character strings in SAS Programming

UTF-8 character strings

purveshrana — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:48:48 GMT

Hello All,

I am doing a proc export step to get the csv format file from SAS.

%macro export_mkt(mktname, outf);

PROC EXPORT DATA= LIB.&mktname.
OUTFILE= "&mydrv.\Projects\Neuro\VInsight_Data\Monthly\&outf._monthly.csv"
DBMS=DLM REPLACE;
DELIMITER=',';
PUTNAMES=YES;
RUN;
%mend;

When the csv file is uploaded to Salesforce.com it is rejecting the file WITH AN ERROR SAYING ,

Error:Invalid utf8 character string: 'The Home Depot'

Error:Invalid utf8 character string: 'St.'

I witnessed in the Csv files that there were blanks in between and after the values. Do I have to compress the variable giving the above mentioned errors? How to solve this problem ?

Re: UTF-8 character strings

andreas_lds — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:11:52 GMT

The blank should not be a problem, but have you checked the encoding of the file created by proc export. Is it in utf-8?

Re: UTF-8 character strings

purveshrana — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:47:25 GMT

Hello Andreas,

It is not in the UTF-8 format. As of now I just exported the csv files to Ultraedit and again saved them as UTF-8. If there is a way I can incorporate UTF-8 format while doing a proc export in the sas code itself ?

Thanks

Re: UTF-8 character strings

andreas_lds — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 07:58:43 GMT

Seems to be possible, see https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Encoding-in-proc-export/td-p/191519 for details.