There are SAS options that control whether SAS will read all of the 80 bytes or only the first 72.
And SAS reads columns 73-80 of the first //SYSIN statement and if there are no line numbers, assumes the rest of the input is also unnumbered, so a later line with a line number can trip up that presumption. Barry Merrill Merrilly yours, Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD President-Programmer Merrill Consultants MXG Software 10717 Cromwell Drive technical questions: supp...@mxg.com Dallas, TX 75229 http://www.mxg.com admin questions: ad...@mxg.com tel: 214 351 1966 fax: 214 350 3694 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ron Thomas Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 11:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SAS Error Thanks Donald ! I looked at the code and there was line numbers in 73-80 col and in removed those and it worked fine . Thanks ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
