https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Help-with-syntax-error/m-p/688380#M24599 <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas"> "DON'T KNOW"</CODE></PRE> Thu, 01 Oct 2020 21:36:25 GMT novinosrin 2020-10-01T21:36:25Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Help-with-syntax-error/m-p/688375#M24598 <P>Hi!&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp; I am writing a simple code and I get this error. The problem is,&nbsp; "DON'T KNOW'. How do I code it right.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="adzoyi_0-1601587831068.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/50090iF8F297B7F776A5D7/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="adzoyi_0-1601587831068.png" alt="adzoyi_0-1601587831068.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 01 Oct 2020 21:32:06 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Help-with-syntax-error/m-p/688375#M24598 adzoyi 2020-10-01T21:32:06Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Help-with-syntax-error/m-p/688380#M24599 <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas"> "DON'T KNOW"</CODE></PRE> Thu, 01 Oct 2020 21:36:25 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Help-with-syntax-error/m-p/688380#M24599 novinosrin 2020-10-01T21:36:25Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Help-with-syntax-error/m-p/688382#M24600 <P>Or old school:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <PRE>'DON''T KNOW'</PRE> <P>That is two single quotes in the middle. Useful to know as sometimes you can get values with mixed quotes and the single outside double quote won't do as expected.</P> <PRE>"Some string that has height measures like 5' 6" in the middle."</PRE> <P>Neither single quote works. You could use</P> <PRE>"Some string that has height measures like 5' 6"" in the middle."</PRE> Thu, 01 Oct 2020 21:47:43 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Help-with-syntax-error/m-p/688382#M24600 ballardw 2020-10-01T21:47:43Z