format native to another host?

[Tal]

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

email

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

[Shmuel]

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.

[Tal]

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

[Shmuel · Accepted solution]

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

[Tal]

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