Hi,

Being a non SAS user I'm posting here in the hope that someone may be able to help. I'm a mainframe programmer wishing to write a simple utility that will assist us greatly with testing.

I have two input files, both defined as variable block, with record lengths of 32756 and block size of 32760, lets call them FILEA and FILEB. The output file will be FILEC defined in a similar fashion to those above.

I wish to take a 200 byte block from FILEA and insert it into the corresponding record in FILEB and output the updated FILEB to FILEC.

i.e.

FILEA = AAAAAABBBBBBCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC FILEB = DDDEEEEEEFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

I wish to create an output of :

FILEC = DDDBBBBBBFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

In FILEA the 200 byte field starts at position 351 while in FILEB it starts at position 65.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

++++++++++ Ian Dukes RD Australia ++++++++++

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