Macro Language 1 Essentials Course Error

[smokinjack1559]

When I run this statement in SAS studio:

%let fullname=AnTHoNY MilLeR;

I get these errors: 

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

2 TITLE;

NOTE: The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 bytes long. You might have unbalanced quotation marks.

3 FOOTNOTE;

4 OPTIONS LOCALE=en_US DFLANG=LOCALE;

5 DATA _NULL_;

6 RUN;

7 OPTIONS VALIDVARNAME=ANY;

ERROR: Open code statement recursion detected.

8 OPTIONS VALIDMEMNAME=EXTEND;

9 FILENAME _HTMLOUT TEMP;

10 FILENAME _GSFNAME TEMP;

11 FILENAME _DATAOUT TEMP;

12 %LET SYSCC=0;

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NOTE 49-169: The meaning of an identifier after a quoted string might change in a future SAS release. Inserting white space

between a quoted string and the succeeding identifier is recommended.

13 %LET _CLIENTAPP='SAS Studio';

14 %LET _CLIENTAPPABREV=Studio;

15 %LET _CLIENTAPPVERSION=3.8;

16 %LET _CLIENTVERSION=3.8;

17 %LET _CLIENTMODE=wip;

18 %LET _SASSERVERNAME=%BQUOTE(SASApp);

19 %LET _SASHOSTNAME=%BQUOTE(odaws02-usw2-2);

20 %LET _SASPROGRAMFILEHOST=%BQUOTE(odaws02-usw2-2);

21 %LET _CLIENTUSERID=%BQUOTE(u61550673);

NOTE: The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 bytes long. You might have unbalanced quotation marks.

22 %LET _CLIENTUSERNAME=%BQUOTE(u61550673);

23 %LET CLIENTMACHINE=%BQUOTE(C-98-35-126-176.HSD1.CA.COMCAST.NET);

24 %LET _CLIENTMACHINE=%BQUOTE(C-98-35-126-176.HSD1.CA.COMCAST.NET);

25 %let SASWORKLOCATION="%sysfunc(getoption(work))/";

26 FILENAME _CWD '.'

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26 ! ;

NOTE 49-169: The meaning of an identifier after a quoted string might change in a future SAS release. Inserting white space

between a quoted string and the succeeding identifier is recommended.

27 DATA _NULL_;

28 CALL SYMPUT('_SASWORKINGDIR',PATHNAME('_CWD'));

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NOTE 49-169: The meaning of an identifier after a quoted string might change in a future SAS release. Inserting white space

between a quoted string and the succeeding identifier is recommended.

29 RUN;

30 FILENAME _CWD;

31

32 %LET _SASPROGRAMFILE = %NRQUOTE(%NRSTR(/home/u61550673/EMC1V2/practices/m103p01.sas));

33 %LET _BASEURL = %BQUOTE(https://odamid-usw2-2.oda.sas.com/SASStudio/);

34 %LET _EXECENV=SASStudio;

35 DATA _NULL_;

36 CALL SYMPUT("GRAPHINIT","");

37 CALL SYMPUT("GRAPHTERM","");

NOTE: The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 bytes long. You might have unbalanced quotation marks.

28 CALL SYMPUT('_SASWORKINGDIR',PATHNAME('_CWD'));

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NOTE 49-169: The meaning of an identifier after a quoted string might change in a future SAS release. Inserting white space

between a quoted string and the succeeding identifier is recommended.

38 RC=TSLVL('SASXGOPT','N');

39 _ERROR_=0;

40 IF (RC^=' ') THEN DO;

41 CALL SYMPUT("GRAPHINIT","GOPTIONS RESET=ALL GSFNAME=_GSFNAME;");

42 CALL SYMPUT("GRAPHTERM","GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE;");

43 END;

44 RUN;

45 DATA _NULL_;

46 RC=SYSPROD("PRODNUM002");

47 IF (RC^=1) THEN DO;

48 CALL SYMPUT("GRAPHINIT","");

49 CALL SYMPUT("GRAPHTERM","");

50 END;

51 RUN;

52 %LET _DATAOUT_MIME_TYPE=;

NOTE: The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 bytes long. You might have unbalanced quotation marks.

53 %LET _DATAOUT_NAME=;

54 %LET _DATAOUT_TABLE=;

55 %LET _DATAOUT_URL=;

56 %SYMDEL _DATAOUT_MIME_TYPE _DATAOUT_NAME _DATAOUT_URL _DATAOUT_TABLE;

57 %LET _SASWS_ = %BQUOTE(/home/u61550673);

40 IF (RC^=' ') THEN DO;

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NOTE 49-169: The meaning of an identifier after a quoted string might change in a future SAS release. Inserting white space

between a quoted string and the succeeding identifier is recommended.

58 %LET _SASWSTEMP_=%BQUOTE(/home/u61550673/.sasstudio/.images/59ceb128-ade3-402b-b222-3b8792c0a9b0);

59 ODS LISTING CLOSE;

60 ODS AUTONAVIGATE OFF;

61 ODS GRAPHICS ON;

62 ODS HTML5 (ID=WEB) DEVICE=PNG GPATH="&_SASWSTEMP_" ENCODING=utf8 FILE=_HTMLOUT (TITLE='Results:

62 ! m103p01.sas') STYLE=Htmlblue OPTIONS(BITMAP_MODE='INLINE' OUTLINE='ON' SVG_MODE='INLINE'

_______________________________________ ___________ ____________

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62 ! CSS_PREFIX='.ods_59ceb128-ade3-402b-b222-3b8792c0a9b0' BODY_ID='div_59ceb128-ade3-402b-b222-3b8792c0a9b0' );

NOTE 49-169: The meaning of an identifier after a quoted string might change in a future SAS release. Inserting white space

between a quoted string and the succeeding identifier is recommended.

63 &GRAPHINIT;

64 OPTIONS FIRSTOBS=1;

65 OPTIONS OBS=MAX;

66 OPTIONS DTRESET DATE NUMBER NOTES;

67 OPTIONS NOTES STIMER SOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

68

69 %let fullname=AnTHoNY MilLeR;

70

71 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

72 ODS HTML CLOSE;

73 &GRAPHTERM; ;*';*";*/;RUN;QUIT;

74 QUIT;RUN;

75 ODS HTML5 (ID=WEB) CLOSE;

76

77 FILENAME _GSFNAME;

78 DATA _NULL_;

79 RUN;

80 OPTIONS NOTES STIMER SOURCE SYNTAXCHECK;

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[Astounding]

That line doesn't cause that error. In fact, that line doesn't cause any error. Here are a few items to check.

If you start with a fresh SAS session, is the error still there?

Were there any changes to code that runs before your program such as your autoexec.sas?

Are there any stray characters to the right of the semicolon such as the word %LET being repeated?

Was a semicolon accidentally omitted from a %LET statement?

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

You had unbalanced quotes (or similar, like an incomplete macro definition) in previously submitted code. Start a new SAS session.