topic Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors in SAS Procedures

Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

Rick_SAS — Fri, 05 May 2017 13:08:01 GMT

Have you ever noticed that sometimes a SAS editor displays a statement in red, which indicates that the color-coder does not recognize that statement? You look it up in the doc and---sure enough!---the statement is valid! You submit the code and---sure enough!---the program runs!

Help SAS improve its editor by telling the developers what valid statement are displayed in red. Respond to this message and state

the name of the procedure and the statement that is displayed in red. A valid example would also be helpful.

To get started, here's one I found:

PROC UNIVARIATE, the CDFPLOT statement:

proc univariate data=sashelp.cars;
var mpg_highway;
cdfplot mpg_highway;
run;

I will "like" responses for which the color-coding is wrong in the latest release of SAS (currently 9.4m4).

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

RW9 — Fri, 05 May 2017 13:22:41 GMT

TBH they should rip the "Enhanced Editor" out and put a proper IDE in its place, EE was version 8.

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

Rick_SAS — Fri, 05 May 2017 13:27:15 GMT

The topic of this thread is reporting issues with the color-coder (enhanced editor, Enterprise Guide, or SAS Studio). Please open a separate thread if you want to discuss editors, GUIs. IDEs, or other topics.

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

mkeintz — Mon, 29 May 2017 20:15:50 GMT

I had misremembered this topic as a request for examples of any erroneous color codes in the editor interface.

It's just for unjustified RED's, but now that I've asked for and received the location of this topic (thanks Rick), here's an incorrect blue in windows enhanced editor 9.4 TSm3 (but not in sas/studio 3.6)

proc tabulate data=sashelp.class weight ;

"weight" is not an option on the proc tabulate statement, but is shown in blue in the editor. (There is a separate WEIGHT statement for proc tabulate).

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

Rick_SAS — Mon, 29 May 2017 20:48:20 GMT

Thanks, Mark. I think this is because WEIGHT is a valid keyword for the VARDEF= option. The color-coding algorithm seems to be overzealous for TABULATE, SUMMARY, and MEANS. It also displays DF, N, and WDF in blue:

proc summary data=sashelp.class vardef=weight; /* or N or DF or WDF */

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

mkeintz — Tue, 30 May 2017 00:29:25 GMT

Ah yes. thx.

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

BethE — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 18:47:07 GMT

Might not be relevant here, but the 'where' statement in proc freq is now showing up as red in Enterprise Guide 7.1

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

PeterClemmensen — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 07:17:45 GMT

The Convert Statement of PROC EXPAND is red in my editor

proc expand data=somedata out=someotherdata;
   by var1;
   id var2;
   convert var3=lead_var3 / transformout=(lead 1);
run;

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

xusally86 — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:15:46 GMT

proc reg data=sp4r.bodyfat;
model weight = height neck chest;
store mymod;
run;quit;

store in red in my editor. Sas 9.4

Please tell me how to solve this problem, thanks.

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

BethE — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:04:41 GMT

Also the 'where' statement in proc print

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

SASKiwi — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 20:51:30 GMT

The incorrect colour coding in your SAS editor is a bug that can only be corrected by SAS. The code will still run correctly.

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

xusally86 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 20:56:42 GMT

Actually, the model cannot be used for score the new data.After I run the score statement, the predicted column is empty. I tried many times, it does not work.

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

SASKiwi — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 03:39:17 GMT

That is a different issue. If you want help with that I suggest you open a new post.

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

scottyk — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:28:11 GMT

Procedure: SGPLOT Statement: BY The BY statement works as expected (dummy program attached), but stays red. I have looked around online, but so far have not found any other indications of this from others. Thank you.

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

LoriK — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 22:28:28 GMT

/*partial snippet of code within ods tagsets.excelXP file="x.xml"*/

ods tagsets.ExcelXP options(sheet_name='Volag');

proc print data=clean noobs;
where volag =' ' and (fy= &fy and _trimester=&tri);
var case_nbr Last_Name First_Name dob Date_arrival year_arrival screening_date Agency_Name ;
title 'Please update in the database. These are either missing or incorrect.';
format screening_date mmddyy8.;
run;

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

happy_mouth — Tue, 07 May 2019 18:27:32 GMT

Hi there,

I found red color for the keywords discreteattrmap, value, enddiscreteattrmap, and discreteattrvar, used with proc template and the begingraph statement.

The full code runs fine.

I'm using SAS 9.4, EG 7.12.

Thanks,

David

proc template;
define statgraph summry;
begingraph / designwidth=750 designheight=800 border=false;

  discreteattrmap name="My_Map" / ignorecase=true;
  value "First"/fillattrs=GraphData1(color=CXC4D79B);
  value "Second"/fillattrs=GraphData2(color=CX7E9952);
  value "Third"/fillattrs=GraphData2(color=CX4F6228);
  enddiscreteattrmap;

  discreteattrvar attrvar=Scenario var=Scenario attrmap="My_Map";

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

DerekD_WF — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:32:43 GMT

Was there ever a resolution for this problem? I still have keywords like WHERE that are showing as undefined/red font in the enhanced editor within SAS Enterprise Guide 7.15

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

Rick_SAS — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:16:57 GMT

As far as I know, the SAS team that supports the EG and SAS Studio interfaces try to resolve these issues as they are reported. Thanks for contributing statements or options that are not coded correctly.

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

SASKiwi — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:26:50 GMT

Not a problem in EG 8.2, which I'm using currently, or earlier releases of EG 8,

Re: Red color for unrecognized statements? Help improve color-coding in SAS program editors

VDR — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:10:15 GMT

The "MNAR" statement in Proc MI is red in my editor(SAS v9.4 M6). Code runs fine and creates dataset as expected.