Michael Bramley wrote: > OUCH! The %* comment truly mistifies me--surely someone in SAS-L (or a little > birdie) would be willing to inform me why a comment should alter your code (from > the compiler's perspective). This completely baffles me. I would think that such > a "feature" would be removed by now? What is its purpose?

Well, I just assumed it was left in so Art Carpenter could use it in his "Programming for Job Security" talks. :-)

David -- David Cassell, CSC Cassell.David@epa.gov Senior computing specialist mathematical statistician