sas, special characters in gplot

1. gplot legend device type special characters question

Hi all,
i am trying to put the special characters alpha and beta in the legend of
my equation.....but it is coming as a blank and the sas log states that

NOTE: A hardware font was specified that is not available on the device
WIN. If the font is available on the hardcopy device, it will be utilized
      if/when the previewed graph is printed.

i am using windows sas 8.2......
could someone point me in the right way....have copied my whole gplot code
below...
thanks
hari.....

******special characters for equation;
data _null_ ;
 s1 = byte(222) ;
 s2 = byte(223) ;
    call symput('alpa',s1);
    call symput('beta',s2);
put s1=  s2= ;
run ;


goptions reset=global gunit=pct border cback=white
         ftitle=swissb ftext=swiss htitle=4 htext=2 gsfmode=replace ;

symbol1 c=black v=dot w=4 I=none L=4 height=2;

symbol2 c=black w=4 i=r height=2;

axis1 order=(0 to 0.006 by 0.0015) offset=(2,2)
      label=("xxx")
      major=(height=3) minor=none
      width=3;

axis2 order=(2 to 6.5 by 0.5) offset=(0,0)
      label=("yyy")
      major=(height=2) minor=none
      width=3;

legend1 label=(H=0.15 in "Ln y = &alpa. + &beta.*ln(x)" POSITION=(bottom
right))
        position=(bottom right inside)
 offset=(1 , 5)
        mode=share;

%inc gtitles;

proc gplot data=stat gout= &mrlstref ;
   plot y*x y1*x / overlay
                             haxis=axis1 hminor=4 legend=legend1
                             vaxis=axis2 vminor=1 noframe;
run;
quit;

2. gplot: Symbols disappear if special order in legend

3. Importing Excel file with special characters

SAS-L gurus,

I'm using the Import Wizard (v9) to import some Excel files. One of the fields contains the % (drug strengths) character and SAS is not importing that field and does not give me an error.

How do I get SAS to import this field directly?

Thanks in advance,

Joanne Mor

4. Compress out special characters

5. display special characters/symbols

Hi all.

Just wondering if anyone please teach me what are the SAS statements
to allow SAS to output special characters/symbols such as ,  etc..

Thanks a lot.

Have a great day.

6. Remove special characters from SAS dataset

7. Filevar And Name With Embedded Spaces Or Special Characters

SAS-Pros:

Sometimes I forget just how great a tool SAS is and how extraordinary
the SAS-L list is --  you guys answer questions before they are asked !
I also apologize for the length of this note !

I have to read through a directory structure and interrogate files with
a particular file extension. Recent notes from Jack and Harry provided a
quick and easy way to traverse the directory structures:

Filename FILELIST Pipe "dir C:\ /S /B /O-D";

Data _NULL_ ;
  Length CHECK $ 3 ;
  Infile FILELIST Lrecl=256 Truncover ;
  File 'C:\Files.TXT' ;
  Input ;
  CHECK = Reverse(Substr(Reverse(Trim(_INFILE_)), 1, 3)) ;
  If (Upcase(CHECK) = 'MBX') Then
     Put @1 _INFILE_ ;
Run ;

The above code, using the PIPE, does exactly what I need; I'm only
interested in files with a ".mbx" extension. I then want to count the
number of new message headers per .MBX file. This code performs the task:

Data MESSAGES (Keep=DESC MSG_COUNT) ;
  Length FNAME DESC $ 50 ;
  Infile 'C:\Files.TXT' Lrecl=256 Truncover ;
  Input @1 FNAME $150. ;
  Infile DUMMY Filevar=FNAME Filename=DESC End=EOF ;
  * ACCT = Scan(DESC, 1, ' ') ;
  MSG_COUNT = 0 ;
  Do While (^EOF) ;
     Input @1 STR $Char6. ;
     If (STR = 'From: ') Then MSG_COUNT + 1 ;
        Else Continue ;
  End ;
  Output MESSAGES ;
Run ;
Proc PRINT Data=MESSAGES ;
Run ;

"Standardly" (if there is such a thing on Windows systems) named files,
like below, cause no problem:

C:\TestIMAP\LWitham\DynDNS.mbx
C:\TestIMAP\LWitham\Drafts.mbx
C:\TestIMAP\LWitham\Clarion.mbx
C:\TestIMAP\LWitham\PaceIRC\Resource25.mbx
C:\TestIMAP\LWitham\Trash\attached.mbx

The  problem occurs with filenames that contain embedded spaces or
"special characters" (like "&" and "-" in the first record below):

C:\TestIMAP\lsippel\FA  Exec Staff\FA Safety &- Security.mbx
C:\TestIMAP\lsippel\FA  Exec Staff\FA outmail NACUBO.mbx
C:\TestIMAP\lsippel\FA  Exec Staff\FA NACUBO Conferences Correspondence.mbx
C:\TestIMAP\lsippel\FA  Exec Staff\FA New Systems.mbx
C:\TestIMAP\lsippel\FA  Exec Staff\FA listserve junk mail.mbx
C:\TestIMAP\lsippel\FA  Exec Staff\FA Misc.mbx
C:\TestIMAP\lsippel\FA  Exec Staff\FA Faxes.mbx
C:\TestIMAP\lsippel\FA  Exec Staff\FA Facilities Management.mbx

The program chokes on these filenames. My question is, is there a way,
using FILEVAR to process multiple files, to get around this issue. I'm
using FILEVAR because I have to have the counts by filename, using
another pipe would read the files as one continuous stream, I believe.

Can the spaces and characters be escaped in some way to make FILEVAR
(and me) happy  ?  We have  SAS v8 on this  particular  server, but  do
have  v9 on workstations and test servers . This app will be run on a
Windows 2000 server.

Any and all help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

-Gerry

Gerard T. Pauline
Mgr, Internet Applications &
University WebMaster
Computer Systems, DoIT
Pace University

8. Reading special Characters