I am not aware of support in ICETOOL for variable-length fields. I know that
SAS can do this.
Bill
newpotato wrote:
> I have a variable length field where the preceding field contains the
> length. How can I display the entire variable length field based on the
> length value?
>
> record offset 297 contains a fixed value indicating the length of data
> at record offset 301.
>
> HEADER('VARIABLE REC') ON(301,(length value at offset 297),CH) -
>
> I tried HEADER('VARIABLE REC') ON(301,(297,4,FI),CH) - without success.
> $
>
> ICE604A 0 ERROR IN KEYWORD, PARAMETER, OR DELIMITER
>
> Thank you!!
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