topic Reading Multilingual file using filename statement in SAS Programming

Reading Multilingual file using filename statement

Imroze — Tue, 27 May 2014 10:20:19 GMT

Dear all,

Please find the below requirements.

Need to read a file name which has MULTILINGUAL characters (abcdégée.txt).

Sample Code:

filename xyz "c:\abcdégée.txt";

data abc;

infile xyz;

input a $1-500;

run;

Getting and ERROR : INVALID OPEN MODE error.

ERROR : ERROR IN FILENAME STATEMENT.

Thank you

Re: Reading Multilingual file using filename statement

RW9 — Tue, 27 May 2014 10:31:25 GMT

Hi,

Sorry, the below worked fine in my Base SAS 9.3 session:

filename xyz "S:\Temp\Rob\abcdégée.txt";

data abc;
length a $500;
infile xyz dsd;
input a $;
run;

Re: Reading Multilingual file using filename statement

Imroze — Tue, 27 May 2014 10:33:06 GMT

I am using SAS 9.2 version and instead of .txt i am reading .sas program.

Re: Reading Multilingual file using filename statement

RW9 — Tue, 27 May 2014 10:40:45 GMT

Perhaps you could post a truncated version of what you are trying to import (which still gives the error) as I suspect there is something in the file you are trying to import which is causing the problem (it shouldn't matter the file extension as .sas files are text).

Re: Reading Multilingual file using filename statement

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 27 May 2014 11:57:28 GMT

You get an invalid open mode. Maybe you have a problem with access rights, or the file is currently held open by another process for writing.