topic Re: Easy Beginner question on KEYLEGEND in Graphics Programming

Easy Beginner question on KEYLEGEND

ahirt845 — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 04:27:56 GMT

Very quick question on the KEYLEGEND statement.

Is the KEYLEGEND text always red when you type it into SAS? Since (I thought) red text indicates something isn't right, I'm wondering why it's doing that. It seems to work regardless so I suppose it isn't a big deal, but I wonder why it would be red (I have a minor case of OCD).

I have attached a screenshot to this message. The example is from the SAS help notes.

Thanks!

Alex

Re: Easy Beginner question on KEYLEGEND

mohamed_zaki — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 08:44:43 GMT

I am using SAS 9.2 and i found that:

If you are using the SAS editor you get this keyword in red.

but if you are using Enterprise Guide you will find it blue as normal.

and you will get in both the same result.

Re: Easy Beginner question on KEYLEGEND

ahirt845 — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:26:28 GMT

That's what I've found too. I'm using 9.3.

I wonder why KEYLEGEND is red. It works just fine, but I wonder what the reasoning behind it is.

Re: Easy Beginner question on KEYLEGEND

Cynthia_sas — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:18:04 GMT

Hi:

Usually when you see red, but the code still works, it means that some syntax didn't make it into the color-coding dictionary. If the code runs correctly then don't worry about it. The color-coding eventually catches up with the word in later releases.

cynthia

Re: Easy Beginner question on KEYLEGEND

ballardw — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:03:01 GMT

If you don't want them to appear as red you can go to Tools> Options> Enhanced Editor Options > General. Click on "User Defined Keywords" and add items there. You user defined keywords will appear in the color and background set in the Appearance tab in the "File elements" window for SAS Program file type.

Re: Easy Beginner question on KEYLEGEND

ahirt845 — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 02:33:56 GMT

When I click "Enhanced Editor" SAS completely freezes up until I have to go into the task manager on my computer and end the program. Does anyone else have this issue or is it just me? Very puzzling, I wonder what's going on.