topic Re: magic string in Programming 1 and 2

magic string

Karo88 — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 15:21:42 GMT

hello,

I have found the following, however when I am pasting it to SAS Studio, it considers it as comment. Pls advise.

*';*";*/;run;

Re: magic string

PeterClemmensen — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 15:29:11 GMT

What do you want to do with this?

Re: magic string

Karo88 — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 15:47:30 GMT

when I fogot to put semicolon at the end of procedure, SAS needs magic string to reset. Do you how to do it?

Re: magic string

PaigeMiller — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 15:51:11 GMT

As I have used the "magic string", it looks like this:

%mend;
;*';*";*/;quit;run;

Re: magic string

Panagiotis — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:22:39 GMT

@PaigeMiller , by default SAS Studio already runs that code. All it's doing is ending anything you might miss in your code so SAS doesn't get stuck running. I call it "Saving you from yourself". Can I ask, why are you trying to use it?

To see that it's already running in the background you can do the following:

1. Go to More application options at the top of SAS Studio and select Preferences

2. Select Code and Log in the options pane, then add a check to Show generated code in the SAS log.

3. Then run any program and view the log. That'll show that it's already running at the end of your code by default. Again, saving you from yourself.

Honestly, don't worry about it when using SAS Studio. Also no need to type that string yourself.

After that go back to the options and uncheck that box. No need to see that code. All it does is add unnecessary text to your log.

- Peter

Re: magic string

PaigeMiller — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:22:21 GMT

@Panagiotis wrote:

@PaigeMiller , by default SAS Studio already runs that code. All it's doing is ending anything you might miss in your code so SAS doesn't get stuck running. I call it "Saving you from yourself". Can I ask, why are you trying to use it?

I am not using SAS Studio, I am using Base SAS.

Re: magic string

Panagiotis — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:25:22 GMT

Hi @PaigeMiller ,

In your first post you mention SAS Studio

hello,

I have found the following, however when I am pasting it to SAS Studio, it considers it as comment. Pls advise.

Do you mind inserting a quick image of where you are using SAS for confirmation?

- Peter

Re: magic string

PaigeMiller — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:38:11 GMT

@Panagiotis wrote:

Hi @PaigeMiller ,

In your first post you mention SAS Studio

I did not. Someone else mentioned SAS Studio.

Re: magic string

Panagiotis — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 13:41:25 GMT

Sorry about that @PaigeMiller . I meant to say @Karo88.

- Peter

Re: magic string

Karo88 — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 13:56:55 GMT

Thank you