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As part of our business, we need to save our SAS programs in PDF format with a header. We would then like to be able to copy paste the program from the PDF to SAS and run it without having to modify it. For this, the headers of the created PDFs are between "/* */" so that they are commented in the program and therefore do not interfere with its execution. However, this causes problems when this header falls in the middle of a data step, because comments in this format are not valid in datalines.   Do you have an idea / solution to either allow comments in a data step, or guarantee that the data steps are never on several PDF pages? Indeed, the PDF is created automatically by the following code: title j=l "/* header */"; ods pdf file="location" style=define_style; filename sas "location.sas"; data _null_; infile sas expandtabs; input; temp =_infile_; file print ods=(template="PDF"); put _ods_; run; ods pdf close; Thks for your response. ... View more