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:

STRING NAME; SEARCH 'St'

• WHERE command to subset data down to records containing search criteria such as:

WHERE NAME ? 'St'

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