topic End-of-record character 21x in SAS Procedures

End-of-record character 21x

dan_waldo — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:42:43 GMT

Hi, folks.

I am using SAS 9.1.3 on a Windows virtual machine, and trying to read flat variable-length records created in EBCDIC.

The end-of-record (EOR) character in this file is 21x.

What can I do to persuade the DATA step to accept this as the EOR?

Thanks!

SASKiwi — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:04:40 GMT

Check out the TERMSTR = INFILE option as in:

And numerous other posts if you search on TERMSTR. Try TERMSTR = '21'x.

Ksharp — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:31:32 GMT

I recommend you to use ENCODING option for INFILE statement when you read in such a file.

data x;

infile 'c:\x.txt' encoding=EBCDIC ;

............

Ksharp

dan_waldo — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:27:18 GMT

Thanks, folks, for taking the time to reply.

As SASKiwi notes, TERMSTR= is needed, and as KSharp notes, ENCODING= is needed too.

I ended up using

INFILE "xxx" ENCODING=EBCDIC037 RECFM=S370V TERMSTR=NL;

which worked like a champ in the Windows environment.