topic Re: GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE appears inside variable text put in log in SAS Programming

GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE appears inside variable text put in log

Nasser_DRMCP — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:09:46 GMT

hello ,

I would like (dummy example) to get the text 'hellobye' in a macro varaible. by running this code, the result in the log is

'hellobye GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE'. how to prevent the text "GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE" to be inserted ?

Thanks a lot in adance

regards

Nasser

%let text1 = hello ; 
%let text2 = bye ;
%let text3 = %str(%')&text1.&text2.%str(%') ;
%put &text3 ;

Re: GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE appears inside variable text put in log

RW9 — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:28:17 GMT

Its really not a good idea to put quotes of any kind in a macro variable, as you can tell just from the snippet you post it really makes coding and quoting so much harder and there is no reason for it.

%let text1 = hello ; 
%let text2 = bye ;
%let text3 = &text1.&text2.;
%put "&text3.";

Re: GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE appears inside variable text put in log

ChrisHemedinger — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:39:59 GMT

Macro best practices aside...

If you are using SAS Enterprise Guide and you want to suppress this GOPTIONS statement, select the option from Tools->Options->Results, Graph panel:

Re: GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE appears inside variable text put in log

Nasser_DRMCP — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:44:53 GMT

Thanks Chris,

I have seleted this option but the problem remains

Re: GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE appears inside variable text put in log

Nasser_DRMCP — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:52:26 GMT

thanks a lot RW9, but I need the ' to specify the file (with its folder) in ODS TAGSETS like this

ODS TAGSETS.EXCELXP FILE = "&file." ;

how could I obtain this

ODS TAGSETS.EXCELXP FILE = 'data/saswork/file_name.xml' ;

by loading the folder and the file in a macro variable ?

thanks

Re: GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE appears inside variable text put in log

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:58:37 GMT

And where is the problem? You use double quotes when specifying the output file for ods, simple as that.

Re: GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE appears inside variable text put in log

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:00:09 GMT

The problem is your use of quotes in macro variables, which is VERY BAD practice, as you just experience. It's just that additional code ends up in there, because SAS has problems finding the end of the string. This additional code is sent as "opening" and "closing" wrapper around your code by EG.

Now there are ways to make this work, but it's much easier to wrap quotes around text where they are needed, not where the text is defined.

%let text1 = hello ; 
%let text2 = bye ;
data _null_;
call symput('text3',"'&text1.&text2.'");
run;

%put &text3 ;

Re: GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE appears inside variable text put in log

RW9 — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:03:20 GMT

Your code would look like this:

%let fname=data/saswork/file_name.xml;

ods tagsets.excelxp file="&fname.";

No need for any additional quotes.

Re: GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE appears inside variable text put in log

Nasser_DRMCP — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:02:45 GMT

Kurt,

by lauching your code , the result is 'hellobye GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE'

i succeed to prevent the GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE only by closing and restart sas EG.

thanks all for your help