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!
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.
Check out the TERMSTR = INFILE option as in:
https://communities.sas.com/message/18844#18844
And numerous other posts if you search on TERMSTR. Try TERMSTR = '21'x.
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
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.
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