topic Reading old format file in SAS Programming

Reading old format file

momi — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:28:20 GMT

I received a format file from other people but can’t open because it was created in a different system. I wonder if there is any way to read without requesting the source to produce a transport file or something (this is a format library from years ago).

Thanks,

Momi

Re: Reading old format file

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:32:58 GMT

Format catalogs are very version-specific. Request the code that created the format, that is always non-version-specific.

Otherwise you'll need to go the transport file route, and I suggest you immediately create a control dataset from the format once you have it.