All, I have a series of files that are pipe delimited text files. However sas is reading in some special characters at the beginning of the file that show up as "<U+EEFF>". I assume this means the files are unicode. I have tried a file name statement with encoding="unicode" and encoding="UTF-8". It works at some level, but the file now has a ^z at the beginning. I thought it may be the kind of unicode being used, so I tried all of the different codes listed in the sas help documentation. None work. I have searched though the discussion, but haven't been able to solve it from what I have found so far. Is it possibly some other version of encoding? Is there a way to strip all special characters? Any other suggestions? Thanks in Advance! Edit: Here is the code I am trying to use: FILENAME ABC "OLDFILE.TXT" ENCODING="UTF-8"; ******HAVE TRIED MANY DIFFERENT ENCODING TYPES***********; PROC IMPORT DATAFILE = ABC OUT=NEWDATA DBMS=DLM REPLACE; DELIMITER='|'; GETNAMES=YES; DATAROW=2; RUN; Message was edited by: Donald Hale
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