Summary: Don't forget RECFM=N and COUNTC #iw-value=1

Bob,

Consider

filename temp temp ; data _null_ ; infile cards ; input ; file temp ; put _infile_ ; cards ; a b c d e f ; data _null_ ; infile temp recfm=n eof = eof ; input x $char32000. ; cnt + countc(x,"0d"x) ; return ; eof: put cnt= ; return ; run ;

I don't think it would be wise to try to eliminate other characters in this case.

Ian Whitlock ==============

Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:48:45 -0500 Reply-To: Bob_Abelson@HGSI.COM Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" From: Bob_Abelson@HGSI.COM Subject: Count number of linefeeds in a file Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi folks,

OS is Windows XP, SAS version is 9.1.3.

What I want to do is read in a file (later a bunch of files) and count the number of linefeeds ('0A'x) or carriage returns ('0D'x). Is there a way to strip out everything else, kind of like a complement of COMPRESS?

Thanks.

Bob Abelson HGSI 240 314 4400 x1374 bob_abelson@hgsi.com