Inserting white space between a quoted string and the succeeding identifier error message

[MaryA_Marion]

I have a problem on input of the enclosed file. What is going on here? There are no tabs unless I missed one.

Error message is

OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
 2          TITLE;
 NOTE: The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 
       bytes long.  You might have unbalanced quotation marks.
 3          FOOTNOTE;
 4          OPTIONS LOCALE=en_US DFLANG=LOCALE;
 5          DATA _NULL_;
 6          RUN;
 7          OPTIONS VALIDVARNAME=ANY;
 8          OPTIONS VALIDMEMNAME=EXTEND;
 9          FILENAME _HTMLOUT TEMP;
 10         FILENAME _GSFNAME TEMP;
 11         FILENAME _DATAOUT TEMP;
 12         %LET SYSCC=0;
 13         %LET _CLIENTAPP='SAS Studio';
 14         %LET _CLIENTAPPABREV=Studio;
 15         %LET _CLIENTAPPVERSION=3.8;
 16         %LET _CLIENTVERSION=3.8;
 17         %LET _CLIENTMODE=wip;
 18         %LET _SASSERVERNAME=%BQUOTE(SASApp);
 19         %LET _SASHOSTNAME=%BQUOTE(odaws02-usw2);
 20         %LET _SASPROGRAMFILEHOST=%BQUOTE(odaws02-usw2);
 21         %LET _CLIENTUSERID=%BQUOTE(u50158717);
 22         %LET _CLIENTUSERNAME=%BQUOTE(u50158717);
 23         %LET CLIENTMACHINE=%BQUOTE(69.160.252.234);
 24         %LET _CLIENTMACHINE=%BQUOTE(69.160.252.234);
 25         %let SASWORKLOCATION="%sysfunc(getoption(work))/";
 26         FILENAME _CWD '.';
 27         DATA _NULL_;
 28         CALL SYMPUT('_SASWORKINGDIR',PATHNAME('_CWD'));
 29         RUN;
 30         FILENAME _CWD;
 31         
 NOTE: The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 
       bytes long.  You might have unbalanced quotation marks.
 32         %LET _SASPROGRAMFILE =
 32       ! %NRQUOTE(%NRSTR(/home/u50158717/Stat.775.programs/swiss11.v2.sas));
 
            _____________________________________
            49
 
 
 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.
 
 33         %LET _BASEURL = %BQUOTE(https://odamid-usw2.oda.sas.com/SASStudio/);
 34         %LET _EXECENV=SASStudio;
 35         DATA _NULL_;
 36         CALL
 36       ! SYMPUT("GRAPHINIT"
                             _
                             49
 36       ! ,"");
 37         CALL SYMPUT("GRAPHTERM","");
                                  ______
                                  49
 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.
 
 38         RC=TSLVL('SASXGOPT','N');
 39         _ERROR_=0;
 40         IF (RC^=' ') THEN DO;
 41         CALL SYMPUT("GRAPHINIT","GOPTIONS RESET=ALL GSFNAME=_GSFNAME;");
                                  ___
 ________________                                                               
                                  49                                     49
 42         CALL SYMPUT("GRAPHTERM","GOPTIONS NOACCESSIBLE;");
                                  ___
 ___________________________________                                            
                                  49                       49
 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 recommende

I have tried this at least 10 times. It is the data but what about the data ??? Thank you.

data swiss;
input type $ length left right bottom top diag;
cards;
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real 214.6 129.7 129.7  8.1  9.5 141.7
real 214.8 129.7 129.7  8.7  9.6 142.2
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real 215.0 129.6 129.7 10.4  7.7 141.8
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real 215.5 129.5 129.7  7.9  9.6 141.6
real 214.5 129.6 129.2  7.2 10.7 141.7
real 214.9 129.4 129.7  8.2 11.0 141.9
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real 215.3 130.4 130.3  7.9 11.7 141.8
real 215.1 129.5 129.6  7.7 10.5 142.2
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;
proc print; run;
data _null_;
file print;
put _page_ ;
run;
proc print; run;

[Reeza]

That's an error in the SAS startup code, not your code. You're fine to ignore it. 

[Tom]

Looks like you are using SAS/Studio to submit your SAS code.  It appears the issue is in the autogenerated code? Or perhaps your session is in a confused state.

Try restarting your SAS session.  Try pressing F9.  Or resetting from the menus.  Then resubmit and see if the unbalanced quotes are cleared up.

[MaryA_Marion · Accepted solution]

Hello,

I tried reducing size of dataset and running as you  requested. My autoexec which I run at the beginning of a sessions ends with the following:  %include '/home/u.../sasmacs2/allmacros.some.sas';

allmacros.some.sas needed to be modified. A long put statement did not cause an issue before but as I added more macros I needed to shorten what was being put out in one of the macros.

So it was an easy fix, I just had to find which macro(s) needed to be changed.

Thank you for your assistance.

MM

[Patrick]

@MaryA_Marion 

Instead of maintaining some master code to compile macros that you %include whenever you start a new session, you could also add the folder with your macros to the SAS Autocall facility.

options INSERT=(SASAUTOS='/home/u.../sasmacs2');

This is some sort of a search path. When you call a macro that hasn't been compiled already then SAS will search in this folder for a .sas file with the name of the macro. If it finds it then SAS will execute the code.

For things to work the macro defined in the .sas file will need to have the same name than the .sas file - else SAS will execute the .sas file but then throw an error because the macro called in the code still doesn't exist.

[MaryA_Marion]

Thank you. That simplifies things!