topic Re: format native to another host? in SAS Procedures

format native to another host?

Tal — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:44:10 GMT

hi,

i was given a sas dataset to use and i noitced it has some weird values in some of the fields

for exmple an email field with values starting from any position

tom@yahoo.com

miki@yahoo.com

mia@yahoo.com

.....

.......

Tried left,compress,strip... nothing is fixing this but also i noticed a note in the log saying:

NOTE: Data file xx.FINAL12.DATA is in a format that is native to another host, or the file encoding does not match
the session encoding. Cross Environment Data Access will be used, which might require additional CPU resources and might
reduce performance.

how can this be fixed?

thx

Tal

Re: format native to another host?

Shmuel — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:03:02 GMT

Except the log note - have you any issue getting wrong results ?

It seems that SAS overcame the issue of encoding and just noticed it to you.

Re: format native to another host?

Tal — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:51:51 GMT

I did not encounter eny errors in my logs. I was supposed to match this dataset with a kill file and remove bad records from it. I was expecting to kill more records though and the email was one of the fields i need to match on. Obviously the weird formatting of that field impacted the results. The other fields are properly formatted

Re: format native to another host?

Shmuel — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 13:19:30 GMT

Have you tried compress(var,' ','c') to remove control characters ?

Re: format native to another host?

Tal — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 01:25:44 GMT

Just did and it worked!
Thank you Shmuel for the big help.:)