ERROR: Unable to open the table… (Missing Format)
In some programming environments, such as the SAS Windowing Environment, you may see this error message while attempting to open a SAS dataset having user specific formats. How to avoid it?
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In some programming environments, such as the SAS Windowing Environment, you may see this error message while attempting to open a SAS dataset having user specific formats. How to avoid it?
With WLATIN1 encoding, characters such as greater than or equal to are not imported. They are transformed into a non-printable 1A character (hexadecimal value) to indicate that the characters were substituted.
While in SAS® Studio, file= can be used to specify both path and name of your output file, SAS® Windowing Environement needs two distinct options: path= and file=. Here is an example.