Date:         Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:26:09 -0500
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From:         "data _null_," <datanull@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: True fixed-length records
Comments: To: Andrew Bell <andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com>
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You don't mention the OS you are using.  I suspect that will be
important.  Also what is going wrong now?  Is '0d'x being read as part
of the record?  Or is it causing a new line.  Is 0D embedded in the
fixed length records or at the end?


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Andrew Bell <andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have input data that contains carriage returns, but it is fixed
> length.  I need SAS to ignore the carriage returns when reading the
> data and simply read each N characters as a record.  Can you tell me
> how I might do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Andrew Bell
> andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com
>