Date:         Wed, 4 Dec 2002 13:40:50 -0800
Reply-To:     "Huang, Ya" <yhuang@AMYLIN.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Huang, Ya" <yhuang@AMYLIN.COM>
Subject:      Re: SAS Viewer issue
Comments: To: Lauren Haworth <haworthl@GENE.COM>
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Hi Lauren,

I asked the same question early this year, and we conclude
that it is a bug!

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ya+huang+sas+viewer+bug+group:comp.soft-sys.sas&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=D1539850DE7DD111B6400008C720C4A80460C566%40cfc-mail.cfc.wa.gov&rnum=1

It has something to do with the format and length of the
character var.

Kind regards,

Ya

-----Original Message-----
From: Lauren Haworth [mailto:haworthl@GENE.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 1:36 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: SAS Viewer issue


Has anyone ever seen a SAS transport file, viewed with the SAS viewer,
showing two variables concatenated in one column. The file looks fine
when extracted back into a regular SAS data set, but in the viewer, we
have two character variables that are showing up in the column that's
supposed to be for the first variable, followed by a second column with
the second variable alone.

The data should look like:

charvar1    charvar2
ABCD        1234
BCDE        2345

But instead it looks like this in the SAS viewer:

charvar1        charvar2
ABCD1234        1234
BCDE2345        2345

Any ideas? We have v8.2.0.193 of the viewer.

TIA,

Lauren