Problem Note 45522: IGNOREDOSEOF option not honored when specified on the FILENAME statement
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The IGNOREDOSEOF option is used to ignore premature end-of-record markers (hex 1a) in the middle of data in external files. The IGNOREDOSEOF option is valid in the FILENAME statement or INFILE statement in a DATA step. Beginning in SAS 9.2 TS1M0 the IGNOREDOSEOF option is not honored. SAS stops reading the external file when the hex 1a is encountered, when used in the FILENAME statement. The IGNOREDOSEOF option is still honored when used in the INFILE statement in the DATA step in SAS 9.2 TS1M0 and beyond.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||
A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.21_M3 is available at:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/B25.html#45522A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.3_M1 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/F98.html#45522| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Topic: | Common Programming Tasks ==> Reading and Writing External Data ==> with PROC IMPORT SAS Reference ==> DATA Step |
| Date Modified: | 2012-02-15 10:08:31 |
| Date Created: | 2012-01-27 13:44:20 |