topic Re: Carriage return in SAS Programming

Carriage return

dk333 — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:19:12 GMT

Is there a way to introduce a carriage return in the SAS 9.4 Program editor or Enhanced Program Editor? I am writing a long documentation note for a program. When I type, there is no automatic carriage return to the beginning of the line below. I need to press "enter" to get the cursor to go to the next line. Is there any way that SAS can roll the text over to the line below after a specified number of characters without me having to press the enter key? Thanks.

Re: Carriage return

ballardw — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:47:47 GMT

The Program Editor: Open the editor, menu select Tools>Options>Program Editor.

Go to the Autoflow tab.

Click on the box AutoFlow Inserted Text

May want to set the BOUNDS below that to a reasonable line length such as 80 or so. Otherwise the lines may default to I think 136 characters.

Don't think there is any autoflow equivalent for the Enhanced Program Editor

Re: Carriage return

dk333 — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:49:48 GMT

Thank you!

Re: Carriage return

Tom — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 17:37:06 GMT

The old program editor had a nice flow command you could use by entering command into the line number area. But it has been broken for awhile. It used to stop when it hit a blank line. Now it flows the whole file. But it will still work as long as the text you want to flow is at the end of the program.

The "enhanced" editor did not include that feature (or any of the other useful line number commands).

You could pretty easily mimic that by running a data step to dump the flowed text to the LOG and then just copy and paste it back into your program.

data _null_;
  file log column=cc ;
  input word :$200. @@ ;
  if length(word)+cc > 70 then put;
  put word @;
cards4;
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;;;;

Result:

2054  data _null_;
2055    file log column=cc ;
2056    input word :$200. @@ ;
2057    if length(word)+cc > 70 then put;
2058    put word @;
2059  cards4;

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et neque id pulvinar. In dignissim, eros non viverra faucibus, dolor
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NOTE: SAS went to a new line when INPUT statement reached past the end of a line.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.01 seconds
      cpu time            0.01 seconds

2063  ;;;;

Re: Carriage return

dk333 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 02:30:06 GMT

Thank you for the thoughtful response. I appreciate it. The problem, though, is that I would still need to manually press enter at the end of every line when I'm creating the note to keep the line from flowing interminably off to the right of the screen. I'm looking for something that can work while I'm creating the note, not after I've created the note.