I got the following error when opening the SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1 (64 bit).
‘.’, hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 1.
I found the following related post on the SAS community website, https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Error-when-launching-SAS-EG-7-1/td-p/403943 with reference to the SAS knowledge base https://sas.service-now.com/csm?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0036279. Here is the solution proposed in the knowledge base.
Workaround
To resolve the issue, follow these steps:
- Close all sessions of SAS Enterprise Guide.
- Navigate to C:\users\user-ID\AppData\Roaming\SAS\EnterpriseGuide.
- Rename the X.X folder to X.X_OLD, where X.X is the release number of SAS Enterprise Guide.
- Reopen SAS Enterprise Guide. You should see that a new X.X folder has been created, and the issue should be resolved.
The solution worked as of November 2024.