Date:         Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:13:13 +0100
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Ctrl-Z char in ASCII infile
In-Reply-To:  <900516832.2018930.0@vm121.akh-wien.ac.at>

To stop the SAS System checking input binary values of the characters,
instead of defaulting to $100. try the $char100. informat.
 
see in example below
 
In article <900516832.2018930.0@vm121.akh-wien.ac.at>, Lex Jansen ++31
(0)412 661124 <f.jansen@ORGANON.OSS.AKZONOBEL.NL> writes
>Hi,
>
>I am reading in an ascii file in a datastep (infile).
>Some of the character variables contain aa end-of-file character (ctrl-Z).
>SAS stop reading when that happens. So I have to delete all ctrl-Z characters
>by hand. Is there an alternative ?
>The reading of the file goes like this:
>
>data test;
> infile 'myfile.txt' missover;
> length txtline $ 100;
> input txtline;
  input txtline $char100.;
>run;
>
>
>******************************************
>Lex Jansen
>Technical Support & Development
>NV Organon
>DCTO/Biometrics
>Tel: (++31) 412 / 661124
>Fax: (++31) 412 / 662516
>email: f.jansen@organon.oss.akzonobel.nl
>******************************************
 
it may need the truncover option on the infile statement....
 
good luck
--
Peter Crawford