an identifier after a quoted string may change?

[deleted_user]

Hi All

Im running a piece of script that i run every month. It was totally fine last month no errors or warnings.
But this month i get this error, this is within a data step within a macro and the macro then fails to continue.

666 if index(page, "?" ) > 0 then page = substr( page, 1, index( page,
666! "?")-1);
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49
NOTE 49-169: The meaning of an identifier after a quoted string may change in a future SAS release. Inserting white space between a quoted string and the succeeding identifier is recommended.

This "note" shouldnt effect the macro script but it does.

please help...

Thanks

Spud

[sbb]

You are seeing a SAS NOTE - if your program is failing in execution there must be another ERROR: type message, possibly BEFORE or AFTER this line of code.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

[Peter_C]

spud,

probably, you also have unbalanced quotation marks

good luck

PeterC

[ballardw]

If you haven't solved the problem I'd try:

if index(page, "?" ) > 0 then page = substr( page, 1, (index( page, "?")-1));

The extra parantheses should force an evaluation of the number.

[Russ_SAS]

The following SAS Usage note discusses the note you are getting:

http://support.sas.com/kb/3/353.html