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Problem Note 19088: KCVT function has problem handling trailing null character
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When you use the trailing null character with the KCVT() function, the results you receive in SAS® 8 and SAS® 9 are different from the results you received in SAS® 6.12.
This example illustrates the problem:
data;
a="8182830000"x;
length b $200;
b=kcvt(a,'ibm','sjis');
put b $hex40.;
run;
The results given in SAS 6.12 were correct. The results given in SAS 8 and SAS 9 are incorrect.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||