Date:         Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:37:39 +0200
Reply-To:     Jim Groeneveld <J.Groeneveld@ITGROUPS.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jim Groeneveld <J.Groeneveld@ITGROUPS.COM>
Subject:      Re: HOW TO READ
Comments: To: "gspatel@PEPCO.COM" <gspatel@PEPCO.COM>
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Girish,

Are you sure those data come from an ascii data file? If you want to read
those wierd characters you have to read every line as text (in a single
character variable; how, see a previous thread) and deduce your relevant
information, i.e. numerical values from that text.

However, you say you have hex on. That means the characters you see are not
the characters in the file, but only their hex number in the ascii collating
sequence. It is not clear to me which program you used to display these
contents, so I don't know which characters are actually displayed
indirectly. However, bear in mind that characters are indicated by their hex
number, counting with 16 digits.

It may not at all be difficult to read such a file, as its contents do not
need to be strange, unless you're trying to directly read some specially
formatted data file from some other program.

Regards - Jim.
--
Y. (Jim) Groeneveld, MSc      IMRO TRAMARKO       tel. +31 412 407 070
senior statistician,          P.O. Box 1          fax. +31 412 407 080
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My computer seems more ²°°°-compatible than I am myself.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Girish Patel [SMTP:gspatel@PEPCO.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 5:19 PM
> To:   SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      HOW TO READ
>
> Dear ( SAS-L ) Friends :
>
> I have attached a snap shot of ...with hex on... how to read "(" or  "&"
> ... and
> other wiered charactes.....
>
>  Can anybody shed some (green) lights on ?
>
> -4----+----5----+----6----+---
> -F----+----F----+----F----+---
> -4----+----5----+----6----+---
> ------------------------------
>          ( ( (
> 060606060404040044444444
> 040404040D0D0D000000000
> ------------------------------
>          ( (
> 06060606040400004444444
> 040404040D0D0000000000
> ------------------------------
>  ( ( ( ( (
> 04040404040000004444444
> 0D0D0D0D0D000000000000
> ------------------------------
> -4----+----5----+----6-
> -F----+----F----+----F-
> -4----+----5----+----6-
> -----------------------
>  & & & &
> 05050505000000004444444
> 00000000000000000000000