SAS Tip: Using the NOQUOTELENMAX Option

SAS_Tipster — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:20:05 GMT

Do you try to write code with no WARNING messages and are frustrated when you get the following message in the log even though the code is fine?

WARNING 32-169: The quoted string currently being processed has 
   become more than 262 characters long.  You may have 
   unbalanced quotation marks.

If so, check out the QUOTELENMAX/NOQUOTELENMAX system option. This option is particularly appropriate when you have long text strings in, for example, an ODS HTML TEXT statement.

proc print data=sashelp.shoes;
 title "Shoe Sales Data";
 ods html text="A very long text message . . . . . . that exceeds the length";
run;

Thanks to Don Henderson for sharing this tip on sasCommunity.org.

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