topic Re: Quotation marks (in footnote) inside macros disable macros in SAS Programming

Quotation marks (in footnote) inside macros disable macros

DmytroYermak — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:08:37 GMT

Hi all,

Could you please help with the Note that disable work of a macros. It is the first note inside the log:

%macro test;
...
304  footnote1 %str(N = number of subjects in the safety analysis set.);
305  footnote2 %bquote(n' represents the number of subjects with a result at the visit for the particular parameter.);
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                        49
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.
306  footnote3 %str(Percentages are based on the number of subjects with non-missing data at the time point.);
...
%mend;

Thank you!

Re: Quotation marks (in footnote) inside macros disable macros

Oligolas — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:55:07 GMT

Hi,

you need to put your text into quotes

%macro test;
footnote1 %nrstr('N = number of subjects in the safety analysis set');
footnote2 %nrstr('n'' represents the number of subjects with a result at the visit for the particular parameter');
footnote3 %nrstr('Percentages are based on the number of subjects with non-missing data at the time point');
%mend;
%test;

Please note that you currently do not need any macro quoting function for displaying the text in the example

Re: Quotation marks (in footnote) inside macros disable macros

DmytroYermak — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:38:15 GMT

Thank you!