topic Re: what does %NRBQUOTE mean? in SAS Programming

what does %NRBQUOTE mean?

Muyu — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 18:19:19 GMT

Hi there,

I am confused about "%NRBQUOTE", I do not know what is this even after I searched it in sas library.

Can someone please explain it in plain and brief language to me?

I want to know what does it mean and how may I use it.

Thanks

Re: what does %NRBQUOTE mean?

PatrickCuba — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 18:20:35 GMT

https://v8doc.sas.com/sashtml/macro/z4bquote.htm

Re: what does %NRBQUOTE mean?

Muyu — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 18:31:20 GMT

I mean I just cannot understand what it says in this link...

Re: what does %NRBQUOTE mean?

Sven111 — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 20:21:30 GMT

Do you understand what %BQUOTE does? If so %NRBQUOTE does basically the same thing but also masks the characters & and % as well as the ones masked by %BQUOTE. To be honest, quoting is often a confusing mess to me, I've especially had problems with quoting when I'm working with SAS and Oracle together since Oracle has a completely different quoting facility, and they don't mesh well. I've often found trial and error to be the best way to get my code to work right in situations like this.

From the documentation:

%NRBQUOTE is most useful when the resolved value of an argument might contain

strings that look like macro variable references but are not, so the macro processor should not attempt to resolve them when it next encounters them.
macro invocations that you do not want the macro processor to attempt to resolve when it next encounters them.

Re: what does %NRBQUOTE mean?

Reeza — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 19:15:55 GMT

Search the term on LexJansen.com for papers written on the topic.