Behavior change from EG4.1 to EG 4.2

[nwelke]

Hi all,
We've noticed a difference between how EG 4.1 and EG 4.2 generate (or store) session parameters.

EG 4.1 generates this output:

%put &_CLIENTUSERNAME &_CLIENTMACHINE;
nick.welke D03CB4

And EG 4.2 generates this:

%put &_CLIENTUSERNAME &_CLIENTMACHINE;
'nick.welke' 'D03CB4'

Does anyone else get this same result? Is it something we can disable in 4.2 to remove the quotes?

TIA
Nick

[Technolero]

I have noticed the same thing. I had some date macro variables in the titles of my reports that no longer display. I have not spent much time finding a solution, so if anyone has one it would be greatly appreciated!

[RichardH_sas]

Suggestion from SAS Tech Support is:

%sysfunc(compress(&_clientusername,%str(%')))

Nick, you probably received the same message from Tech Support, but I figured I'd post it here for others to look at, Not sure if the EG developers will offer a less programatic workaround in the future.

[Patrick]

Why not using dequote() instead?

%let _CLIENTUSERNAME='nick.welke';
%put %sysfunc(dequote(&_CLIENTUSERNAME));

[twocanbazza]

One would have to ask why the change? you would think code run in previous versions would be able to run with the same results/output successfully in current versions.

Barry Message was edited by: twocanbazza

[boschy]

I dare say that someone complained about problems with unquoted strings. I wonder if the majority of EG users were happy with the old approach.