Disable SAS Studio variables

[_zeta_]

Hi everyone!

Maybe exist a way to disable the autogenerated variables when a user executes a task in SAS Studio?

We want to avoid this:

We appreciate the support you can provide us!

[Quentin]

If you start a new session, and run a task, do you get that Note?

I tried to replicate the problem, but I couldn't, even with code like:

1    %let foo=%bquote(blah'AAA BBB CCC'blah)  ;
2    %put &foo ;
blah'AAA BBB CCC'blah

The only way I could get that NOTE in the log is if I introduce an unmatched quotation mark, as suggested in this thread:
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/quot-NOTE-49-169-The-meaning-of-an-identifier-after-a...

[_zeta_]

I was able to replicate the case, It works!

;*%mend;*);*';*";**/; 
run;

 Now, we want to replicate this for all users that use SAS Studio, I can't do that in workspace autoexec.sas code because It should be place at the beginning of the user's code, may be exist another place to do that?

[SASKiwi]

You can turn that note off by adding this option to your SAS server AUTOEXEC - this will enable it for all users:

options noquotelenmax;

 That's what we do and it works fine.

[Quentin]

I don't think noquotelenmax will effect the note about text immediately following a quoted string, e.g.:

1    options noquotelenmax;
2    %let foo='bar'foo ;
              -----
              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.

[SASKiwi]

True, but it isn't clear which issue the OP has: an embedded quote or simply a long end-quoted string - the option can deal with those.

[Tom]

---

@_zeta_ wrote:

I was able to replicate the case, It works!

;*%mend;*);*';*";**/; 
run;

 Now, we want to replicate this for all users that use SAS Studio, I can't do that in workspace autoexec.sas code because It should be place at the beginning of the user's code, may be exist another place to do that?

---

You cannot fix user generated unbalanced quotes (or unbalanced macro defintions) in the autoexec.sas file.  The problem hasn't happened yet when the autoexec file executes.

[Quentin]

---

@_zeta_ wrote:

I was able to replicate the case, It works!

;*%mend;*);*';*";**/; 
run;

 Now, we want to replicate this for all users that use SAS Studio, I can't do that in workspace autoexec.sas code because It should be place at the beginning of the user's code, may be exist another place to do that?

---

I'm surprised Studio isn't already appending that magic string after each block of user submitted code.  That's what EG does.

Personally, I think automatically fixing unmatched quotes can be confusing to developers.  It can end up hiding the problem, because the IDE fixes it.

So I would recommend handling this as an education issue, and inform users that if if they receive the error you mentioned, they likely have a problem with unmatched quotes.  And they can either try submitting the magic string to fix the problem, or they can exit their SAS session and re-start it.