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ebrenner22
Calcite | Level 5

I have received this error before and usually I can restart SAS Enterprise Guide, but this time restarting hasn't helped. 

 

I have been getting this error...

 

"NOTE 49-169: The meaning of an identifier after a quoted string might change in a future SAS release. Inserting white space
between a quoted string and the succeeding identifier is recommended."

 

... for any line of code I am submitting. The code I am using does not even include any quotes. It can be as simple as a Libname statement that still causes this code. Or it will sometimes just result in no Errors/Warnings/Notes/Output.

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

You have unbalanced quotes upstream in your code. Restart the SAS session so the confusion ends, and work through the code step by step to find the culprit.

 

PS this might include all the parts that constitute some "autoexec" mechanism. All the autoexec files on the server (if they were modifed recently), a possible Autoexec process flow in your project, and all the code automatically sent from EG (on server startup or before task execution).

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