topic Re: Error on SAS Studio in SAS Programming

Error on SAS Studio

kcodo — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 01:04:34 GMT

i got this error message

ERROR 217-322: Invalid statement due to first character being unprintable (hexadecimal representation: EFBFBC4D4F44454C).

when i run this code

proc glm data=mydata; 
class group ;
model minTC_ave_mean=Age / EFFECTSIZE alpha=0.05; run;

what is the problem? any help much appreciated

Re: Error on SAS Studio

Reeza — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 01:47:27 GMT

Did you copy and paste the code from somewhere?
If so, try typing it out instead. Sometimes, because its a browser, there are hidden characters that don't show up the way you expect, especially if copying from a website or PDF file.

Re: Error on SAS Studio

kcodo — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 02:39:51 GMT

I run; quit; by itself, and re-run the the whole code and it seems to work now. thanks for your help~!

Re: Error on SAS Studio

satya7777 — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 09:27:03 GMT

I too had the same issue. I did the format code and after that it worked like a charm.

It may also work for you.

Re: Error on SAS Studio

DidierULaval — Mon, 04 May 2020 16:29:34 GMT

The auto-format code trick worked for me!

Re: Error on SAS Studio

DrAbhijeetSafai — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 09:11:42 GMT

I was able to solve this issue for me by following way.

I downloaded the file in which code was saved. Opened the file, copied the code and pasted the entire code in a notepad file. Now when I am copying the code from notepad file, this issue is resolved. Thanks.