Reading Multilingual file using filename statement

[Imroze]

Dear all,

Please find the below requirements.

Need to read a file name which has MULTILINGUAL characters (abcdégée.txt).

Sample Code:

filename   xyz  "c:\abcdégée.txt";

data abc;

  infile xyz;

  input a $1-500;

run;

Getting and ERROR : INVALID OPEN MODE error.

ERROR : ERROR IN FILENAME STATEMENT.

Thank you

[RW9]

Hi,

Sorry, the below worked fine in my Base SAS 9.3 session:

filename   xyz  "S:\Temp\Rob\abcdégée.txt";

data abc;
  length a $500;
  infile xyz dsd;
  input a $;
run;

[Imroze]

I am using SAS 9.2 version and instead of .txt i am reading .sas program.

[RW9]

Perhaps you could post a truncated version of what you are trying to import (which still gives the error) as I suspect there is something in the file you are trying to import which is causing the problem (it shouldn't matter the file extension as .sas files are text).

[Kurt_Bremser]

You get an invalid open mode. Maybe you have a problem with access rights, or the file is currently held open by another process for writing.