Add a hex character X '0A' at the end of each record

amalraj_ece · New User Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 21 Location: delhi

I have a file which is 32756 VB length file. The actual data in this file again is varied length. For example, first record is 841 length and second record is 994 etc. I want to add a hex character X '0A' at the end of each record. Can you help me with this?

expat · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:55 pm

What happens should one or more records be a length of 32756 ?

amalraj_ece · New User Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 21 Location: delhi

I have to do this through JCL (may be through SAS or Sort or any other utility).

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:17 pm

Hello,

I berlieve you misunderstood Expat's queston.

What happens when the record is already the maximum length before the x'0A' is appended?

Robert Sample · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:44 pm

This is easy to do in SAS as long as none of the records are already 32756 bytes long.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:17 am

so what is the easy SAS solution when a record is 32756 before the addition of the extra byte to add the linefeed?

Robert Sample · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:51 pm

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:27 pm

Robert,

My question was _ what happens when a record is already at max length?