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gandikk
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi,

 

I need to check few symbols while applying PROPCASE on my data. Underscore is part of my symbols. When I included underscore in my code as O_NAM1 = PROPCASE(I_NAM1, " .<(+|&!$*);¬-/,%_`"), I got a warning "Apparent invocation of macro _ not resolved". How can I include underscore in my code? When I kept the underscore in single quotes, pgm considered single quote as a valid symbol and checked the data for single quote. I don't want to search data for single quote.

 

Thanks in advance!!

SAS@EMMAUS
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Astounding
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%_ would be a valid name for a macro.  To fix the problem, just switch the order within your string:  _% instead of %_

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Astounding
PROC Star

%_ would be a valid name for a macro.  To fix the problem, just switch the order within your string:  _% instead of %_

gandikk
Obsidian | Level 7

Thank you!!

 

SAS@EMMAUS
ballardw
Super User

Or use single quotes to delimit the string.

gandikk
Obsidian | Level 7
Thank you!!
SAS@EMMAUS

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