Start here: https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/bicdc/9.4/bisag/p02ybml1gyskc6n1jmk88w7se9o8.htm  There are already several alternative logconfig files provided; I took one of those and modified it to get a full server-side log of all code run from EG. ... View more

The rank function returns the ascii code for a character. data _null_; file print; ascii_code=rank('t'); put ascii_code; run;   the final result that I want is a file in that format. Like a text file with all the characters replaced with their respective ASCII code? And I guess that all ASCII codes would need to take-up 3 positions so you know where they start and end. Why ASCII codes which is very unusual and not HEX values?   ....and just thinking: May-be tell us what the purpose for such conversion is. There might be other ways for achieving the same goal. ... View more

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You will need to provide much more details about what you tried and what result you got.  Show the code used to create the text file.  And the code used to read the text file.   First what encoding is your SAS session using?  Check the value of the ENCODING system option.  That option is set at the start of the SAS session, so you need to make sure you are using an single byte encoding for the SAS session.   If you are trying to read a text file and you do not want SAS to transcode the characters from the encoding used by the file to encoding used by the SAS session then you will need to use ENCODING=ANY on the INFILE statement.  Then if you did need to transcode the strings read from the file you will need to use the KCVT() function.   In general you should not be writing non-ASCII characters into fixed position files.  It will just cause havoc.  Can you just not allow character like enye in your text strings?   Also try reading the file as BINARY bytes to see what it contains.  For example to check the first 500 bytes of the file you could use a data step like this: data _null_; infile 'myfile.txt' recfm=f lrecl=100 obs=5; input; list; run; ... View more

I Had not understood, sorry, now I tried it and it works wonderful, thanks to clear the topic ... View more

Thks! Tom, nice help! ... View more

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It worked, Thks !! ... View more