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Jan 09, 2008 at 01:18 PM

What is the best fix to permanently fix an u0093invalid charactersu0094 error

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What is the best fix to permanently fix an “invalid characters” error in a flat file load.

During a flat file data load I got a message that a value ‘9887b00.555’ of characteristic 0MATERIAL contains invalid characters.

The load failed but when I went into PSA to browse through the package of 600 records, there was no error, they were all green. Even the record with value ‘9887b00.555’ was available as green.

Later, I deleted the Red request and went into the flat file (.csv) and modified it by switching the small “b” to “B” in ‘9887b00.555’

I then reloaded the data and it loaded successfully without any problems.

What are the possible permanent solutions to this problem?

Please provide the detail steps and tcodes where applicable.