Date:         Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:05:07 -0600
Reply-To:     Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Subject:      Re: Another %PUT Notes feature in V8
Comments: To: Peter.Lund@CFC.WA.GOV
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If the behavior doesn't go away, and becomes documented, I'll consider
it a feature.  It's a way to (a) force a note even if the silly user has
set NONOTES, and (b)it provides a way to force a line break in a note
without the NOTE: prefix in the log.

But these two capabilities should probably be separated.  And the
behavior should definitely be documented.

I notice that the behavior is case-sensitive; "NOTE: " causes
color-coding, but "note: " does not.




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JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com
Development Manager, Technical Group
METRICS Department, First Health
West Sacramento, California USA


>>> "Lund, Pete" <Peter.Lund@CFC.WA.GOV> 09/21/2000 4:19 PM >>>
One last observation about %PUT with NONOTES:

Check out the %PUT #3 in the macro below.  As I posted earlier, line #2 does
not show up at all (treated like a SAS note), but #3 is a strange one!  It
seems as though it's only a hyphen (-) immediately following NOTE that
causes this behavior.

%macro notes;
  options nonotes;
  %put ;
  %put HERE COME THE NOTES, there are 6 (1);
  %put NOTE: This note does not display at all (2);
  %put NOTE- This one shows up color coded, but where did "NOTE-" go? (3);
  %put NOTE~ This one is here, but not color coded (4);
  %put NOTE - This is here, not color coded either (5);
  %put HERE ENDS THE NOTES, but where is number 2? (6);
  %put ;
%mend;
%notes

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