Date:         Fri, 28 May 2004 13:47:42 -0700
Reply-To:     "Choate, Paul@DDS" <pchoate@DDS.CA.GOV>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Choate, Paul@DDS" <pchoate@DDS.CA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: general newline character (escape) sequence
Comments: To: "Groeneveld, Jim" <jim.groeneveld@VITATRON.COM>

Hi Jim,

my $.02 - I think you'll need to id the operating system with SYSSCP or
SYSSCPL and then conditionally assign the right eol marker, along with any
file references.

In some cases you could perhaps indirectly create it and then refer to it.
Something along this line:

1149
1150  data _null_;
1151  file test;
1152  put  ;
1153  run;

NOTE: The file TEST is:
      File Name=test.dat,
      RECFM=V,LRECL=256

NOTE: 1 record was written to the file TEST.
      The minimum record length was 0.
      The maximum record length was 0.
NOTE: DATA statement used:
      real time           0.01 seconds
      cpu time            0.00 seconds


1154
1155  data _null_;
1156  infile test pad recfm=n;
1157  input @1 crlf $char2. ;
1158  put crlf $hex4.;
1159  stop;
1160  run;

NOTE: UNBUFFERED is the default with RECFM=N.
NOTE: The infile TEST is:
      File Name=\test.dat,RECFM=N,LRECL=256

0D0A
NOTE: DATA statement used:
      real time           0.00 seconds
      cpu time            0.00 seconds


This would work in Win and Unix I think, but in MVS there aren't always end
of line markers (fixed length datasets...)  The concept of end-of-line
markers doen't hold across all platforms.


- regards


Paul Choate
DDS Data Extraction
(916) 654-2160

-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Groeneveld, Jim
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 5:10 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Q: general newline character (escape) sequence

Hi friends,

I want to embed line_ends or new_line characters within character strings
and macro variables. Of course I can embed OS-dependent newline characters,
like BYTE(13) and BYTE(10) as CRLF in DOS/Windows, but I would prefer an
OS-independent solution, like '\n' in C, which is being substituted
automatically by the used OS newline default.

Regards - Jim.
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