SAS program behaving differently on different environments

[gamotte]

Hi,

At work, we have several SAS environments for development, testing...

They are all SAS 9.4 that are hosted on similar virtual machines on the same

physical unit (AIX P8).

We have a code snippet that shows a different behaviour on the testing environment.

It seems that the findw function produces different results from one environment to the other.

%let indice=%sysfunc(findw(H B N F FU FZ FE,&taxe&reg.,' ',E));

Testing with a usecase where taxe=B and reg is void works fine in dev, but when run on the test env, the following error occurs

(it's in french, sorry - "est résolue" mean "is resolved") :

SYMBOLGEN:  La macro-variable TAXE est résolue en B
SYMBOLGEN:  La macro-variable REG est résolue en 
MLOGIC(FDL_APP_MAC_IHM_TAB_IFP) :  %LET (le nom de la variable est REGINT)
SYMBOLGEN:  La macro-variable INDICE est résolue en .
ERROR: A character operand was found in the %EVAL function or %IF condition where a numeric operand is required. The condition was: . 
ERROR: Argument 2 to macro function %SCAN is not a number.
ERROR: The macro FDL_APP_MAC_IHM_TAB_IFP will stop executing.

Does the behaviour of the findw function depend on some settings that could have been altered ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[gamotte · Accepted solution]

After a restart, the problem is solved.