topic Re: WARNING: The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 characters long in SAS Procedures

WARNING: The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 characters long

abcd123 — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:31:03 GMT

Hello,all

I am trying to execute a dos command within sas:

%sysExec copy "&file" "&new_destination";

however, I got a warning message

WARNING: The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 characters long. You may have unbalanced quotation marks.:

Apparently, it is my macro variable &file that is too long.

I tried options NOQUOTELENMAX; the warning message is gone, however, still no file is copied to the new_destination.

Can anyone help to solve this problem? Thanks

Re: WARNING: The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 characters long

Quentin — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 17:04:35 GMT

I would try replacing the macro vars with hard coded values, and see if it's happy then.

Most likely the value of &file aor &new_destination is not what you expect.

%put &file being copied to &new_destination ;

Once you have it working without macro vars, then go back to using the macro vars.

Message was edited by: Quentin McMullen

Re: WARNING: The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 characters long

abcd123 — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 17:52:58 GMT

Thank you for help. I found out what the problem is: there are too many spaces tailoring in macro variable &file. After those spaces are removed, it worked.

Re: WARNING: The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 characters long

pavan1 — Mon, 15 May 2017 14:33:34 GMT

Hello abcd123

can you please share the code that u had used for this error. I'm facing the same issue.

Thanks,