Hi,
Could you please convert the following import statement to a UTF8 compliant version? (The input text file is UTF8 and the dataset needs to be UTF8 compliant.) Thanks for your help.
data dir.ds;
%let _efierr_ = 0;
infile "&in\ds.txt" delimiter = ',' missover dsd firstobs = 2;
format colA $10. ;
format colB $10. ;
format colC $10. ;
...
informat colA $10. ;
informat colB $10. ;
informat colC $10. ;
...
input
colA $
colB $
colC $
...;
if _error_ then call symput('_efierr_',1);
run;
If your SAS installation is UTF compliant (DBCS) and your encoding is UTF in SAS what is this question about?
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Thanks for your reply. Yes the installation is UTF8 compliant.
Do I need to use the following to be able to read from a UTF8 text file and retain compliance in the dataset? We are using 9.1.3.
libname mylib outencoding="utf-8";
infile myfile encoding="utf-8";
It's for sure a good idea to specify the encoding explicitly. Some UTF8 encoded files don't have a BOM so telling SAS which encoding to use will help avoiding issues.
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