Using following code copy code from Win to Unix if their sas version are almost same. proc copy in=...   out=.....   noclone ; or using proc immgate .. Ksharp ... View more

One possibility would be the SAS Unicode Server. Take a look at: http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/92unicodesrvr.pdf ... View more

I created a TRTDEF data set like this.... data trtdef;    input (TRTID CODES)(:$20.);    cards; ID001     a|b|c ID004     x|y ID001a    a|e|f ;;;;    run; And I ran it through the code you posted to create data set TEMP2.... Obs    ID001    ID004    ID001a    1      a        x        a    2      b        x        a    3      c        x        a    4      a        y        a    5      b        y        a    6      c        y        a    7      a        x        e    8      b        x        e    9      c        x        e   10      a        y        e   11      b        y        e   12      c        y        e   13      a        x        f   14      b        x        f   15      c        x        f   16      a        y        f   17      b        y        f   18      c        y        f Is this data set the file product your seek?  Also, if this is the output you want what do you do with it? ... View more

Your example does not have any parameters in the call. If this is the case in your real world problem you can call the macro before the data step, have the macro create a global macro variable, and use that in your data step. Not as neet as you may wished for, but it would work. Linus ... View more