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garag
Calcite | Level 5

Hi,

I'm trying to write a txt file with sas. The file will contain a value of a macro variable and that mcro variable could contain double quote. Example

%let myvar=ORACLE execute error: ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into  ("blabla"."blabla"."blabla");

%let bodyfile=/mydir/mytxt.txt;

data _null_;

     file "&bodyfile.";

      put &myvar.;

run;

It does not work. What is wrong?

Any help will be appreciate.

Thanks

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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

The combination of these two lines:

%let myvar=ORACLE execute error: ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into  ("blabla"."blabla"."blabla");

put &myvar.;


Will be:

put ORACLE execute error: ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into  ("blabla"."blabla"."blabla");


Which is clearly not what you want as it will look for variables named ORACE, EXECUTE, CANNOT etc.

The proper syntax you want is:

put "ORACLE execute error: ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into  (""blabla"".""blabla"".""blabla"")";


To get that use the QUOTE() function.

put %sysfunc(quote(&myvar)) ;




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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

The combination of these two lines:

%let myvar=ORACLE execute error: ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into  ("blabla"."blabla"."blabla");

put &myvar.;


Will be:

put ORACLE execute error: ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into  ("blabla"."blabla"."blabla");


Which is clearly not what you want as it will look for variables named ORACE, EXECUTE, CANNOT etc.

The proper syntax you want is:

put "ORACLE execute error: ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into  (""blabla"".""blabla"".""blabla"")";


To get that use the QUOTE() function.

put %sysfunc(quote(&myvar)) ;




garag
Calcite | Level 5

Thank Tom, it worked

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