Hi everyone, I am trying to process a file with records that have a 'header' with fixed layout, and a body with a variable layout. There is information in the fixed header of the offset within the record for a variable I am trying to read. For example, in the header at say position 10 there is a variable which has the offset location for say a customer name. I can read this offset easy enough, but how would I then input into a CUSTOMER variable from this offset? @OFFSET CUSTOMER $10. ?? I haven't tried this but I am doubtful it will work and hope someone else knows how to process files of this kind. Thanks, Mark. ... View more

Hi everyone, I hope this is the right group in the forum. I am trying to export a SAS dataset to XML using LIBNAME. I can get the XML OK except when there are special/reserved characters (&,<,> etc). The text in that tag end up being escaped/convered to something like &#x62;&#x6F;&#x6F;&#x26; ... I would have expected a string such as 'Me & you' to end up as Me &amp; you. I am using SAS 9.2 on z/OS. I have tried using XMLPROCESS=RELAX (although I do want to escape the characters) but that made no difference. Does anyone know why and more importantly how to get around this? Mark. ... View more