I'm importing a file from Cobol into SAS and am encountering a problem with two packed decimal fields in the conversion. As the fields are read in, some of the unpacked results read out to the equivalent of hex values 00 or 1A, and therefore my data step thinks it is at the end of a row prematurely. Is there any simple way to either a) simply skip over these fields when reading the file into SAS or b)Tell SAS to disregard the hex equivalents for those fields so each line goes to the full lrecl?
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