Problem Note 39006: NAME/LOCATE search sequence in FSEDIT causes Read Access Violation on long column
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When attempting to use the NAME and LOCATE search sequence in FSEDIT on a column with a length greater than 200 characters, the FSEDIT window might close down with the following error written to the SAS log.
ERROR: Read Access Violation In Task [ FSEdit Window ) Exception occurred at (5914C260) Task Traceback Address Frame (DBGHELP API Version 4.0 rev 5) 5914C260 0497E4E0 sasfse:mcn_main+0xB260 59148F46 0497EA84 sasfse:mcn_main+0x7F46 59150AAA 0497F0D4 sasfse:mcn_main+0xFAAA 590E336E 0497FF88 saszfsed:mcn_main+0x236E 01272B1A 0497FFA0 sashost:Main+0xBE8A 01276C38 0497FFB4 sashost:Main+0xFFA8 7C80B713 0497FFEC kernel32:GetModuleFileNameA+0x1B4 ERROR: Generic critical error.
To circumvent this problem, you can search for the desired information using these alternate search methods.
- STRING and SEARCH command sequence to perform search similar to NAME and LOCATE such as:
- WHERE command to subset data down to records containing search criteria such as:
STRING NAME; SEARCH 'St'
WHERE NAME ? 'St'
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/FSP | z/OS | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9 TS M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9 TS M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9 TS M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9 TS M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9 TS M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2010-03-19 16:14:47 |
| Date Created: | 2010-03-11 10:11:28 |