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SASdevAnneMarie
Barite | Level 11

Hello,

In my data file csv  have a lote of  "’", I need to replace it just by " ' ".

I import my row data file with infile statement (infile "&Rep_Travail\xxxx.csv" dsd truncover lrecl=32767 encoding=wlatin2) and I get the table donne.sas

 

When I run the code: 


data donnee_bis;
set donne;
var3_correct=tranwrd(var3,"’","'");
run;

 

I get the error that SAS "Failed to transcode data from U_UTF8_CE to LATIN_9_CE......."

 

I put already the options locale=FR before the infile. Maybe I need to change encoding option in infile statement?

Thank you for your help!

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SASdevAnneMarie
Barite | Level 11

The data is attached.

Thank you

PGStats
Opal | Level 21

If your csv file was exported from an Excel workbook, you could correct the problem in Excel at the export step. In the export dialog, choose Tools - Web Options - Encoding -> Unicode (UTF-8)

PG
SASdevAnneMarie
Barite | Level 11
Thank you for your suggestion.
I'm receiving this file, I need to correct it automatically, not manually.
PGStats
Opal | Level 21

Then try adding option encoding=WLATIN1 to your infile statement.

PG
SASdevAnneMarie
Barite | Level 11
It doesn't work 😞
PGStats
Opal | Level 21

Maybe@Tom can help. He understands this encoding stuff.

PG
SASdevAnneMarie
Barite | Level 11
I mean that I import the file with encoding=wlatin1, but I still need to correct the values like :
VAR&i.=tranwrd(VAR&i.,"é","é");
VAR&i.=tranwrd(VAR&i.,"ÃŽ","ô");
VAR&i.=tranwrd(VAR&i.,"êŸ","ê");
VAR&i.=tranwrd(VAR&i.,"çŸ","ç");
VAR&i.=tranwrd(VAR&i.,"â","â");
VAR&i.=tranwrd(VAR&i.,"â€","'");
VAR&i.=tranwrd(VAR&i.,"Ã","à");
Maybe, there is some function as in this example (it doesn't work in my case 😞
data gg; g="Général";
g1=PUT(g,$UTF8x2000.);
g2=INPUT(g1,$UTF8x2000.);
run;
Obs g g1 g2

1 Général Général Général

I mean that with a step like that I don't need to use a lot of tranwrd functions, but I still can't found a combination of formats for my case...

Thank you very much!

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