Hi Kevin,

Whether you are on unix or pc won't make a difference. So this explanation works for both you and others.

The condition tests you list ONLY work if any precending characters are space characters.

If both of your condition tests fail, then it is easy to assume that there is one or more of the characters infront of your pattern that is not a space character.

If you want to find your pattern regardless if there are only spaces or not, you can use if index( _infile_,"H2r") ; This will find your pattern if some character other than spaces is found preceding your pattern. In fact the INDEX() will succeed if found anywhere on the line.

Hope this is helpful.

Mark Terjeson Senior Programmer Analyst, IM&R Russell Investment Group

Russell Global Leaders in Multi-Manager Investing

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin Roland Viel Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:05 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Solaris and INFILE

Greetings,

I have same puzzling failures. I have a file on my Solaris box with the following line:

H2r Std. Error:

I have tried several lines to recognize this point in the file:

if left( _infile_ ) =: "H2r" ; if scan( compress( _infile_ ) , 1 , "." ) = "H2rStd" ;

Does anyone have a clue? I am lost? I was wondering about changinge the ENCODING options, but that does not seem to be right.

TIA,

Kevin

Kevin Viel PhD Candidate Department of Epidemiology Rollins School of Public Health Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322