topic Usage of special ASCII characters in SAS dataset in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Usage-of-special-ASCII-characters-in-SAS-dataset/m-p/195252#M48896 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi everyone,</P><P></P><P>I am trying to insert ASCII chatacters into a sas dataset. I have a column with numeric values, and if the numeric value is missing, then I want to crate a new character column and replace the missing value with the infinity symbol. I tried using the BYTE function, but it has a list of 255 special characters, where I could not find infinity. Any input will be appreciated. </P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 09 Aug 2015 22:37:00 GMT hjoe21 2015-08-09T22:37:00Z Usage of special ASCII characters in SAS dataset https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Usage-of-special-ASCII-characters-in-SAS-dataset/m-p/195252#M48896 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi everyone,</P><P></P><P>I am trying to insert ASCII chatacters into a sas dataset. I have a column with numeric values, and if the numeric value is missing, then I want to crate a new character column and replace the missing value with the infinity symbol. I tried using the BYTE function, but it has a list of 255 special characters, where I could not find infinity. Any input will be appreciated. </P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 09 Aug 2015 22:37:00 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Usage-of-special-ASCII-characters-in-SAS-dataset/m-p/195252#M48896 hjoe21 2015-08-09T22:37:00Z Re: Usage of special ASCII characters in SAS dataset https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Usage-of-special-ASCII-characters-in-SAS-dataset/m-p/195253#M48897 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You will need SAS DBCS, and run it with UTF-8 encoding. Then you can specify the infinity symbol as 'e2889e'x;</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 10 Aug 2015 06:29:08 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Usage-of-special-ASCII-characters-in-SAS-dataset/m-p/195253#M48897 Kurt_Bremser 2015-08-10T06:29:08Z