Date:         Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:46:04 +0300
Reply-To:     nina <sas@MAILINATOR.COM>
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From:         nina <sas@MAILINATOR.COM>
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Subject:      how to handle lost card
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a very large input file can contain at unpredictable locations '1A'x (hex 1A)

any input that just happens to collide on a line which contains this causes
termination of the data step and lost card

what's the best way to handle this?

do a scan of the entire line buffer and clean out the offending character?

ie . something like compress(_infile_,'1A'x) ?