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tomcmacdonald
Quartz | Level 8

Is it possible to inform SAS to skip faulty lines in an infile statement?  I'm trying to parse a dirty sequential mainframe file and it's stopping on the bad record.

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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

Can you tell which are the bad lines?

data want ;
  infile myfile;
  input @ ;
  if index(_infile_,'BAD LINE') then delete;
  ....
run;

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