Date:         Mon, 25 Nov 2002 08:57:09 -0500
Reply-To:     "Karl K." <karlstudboy@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Karl K." <karlstudboy@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: macro resolution inside *-comments

If I'm reading you correctly, I'm not really seeing a "comment".  An
asterisk denotes a comment at the beginning of a STATEMENT, not the
begining of a line of text.  There's no semi-colon after "%bad", so the
next line isn't really a comment.

(The following code is untested.)

For example, if we define %bad as something like:
%macro bad;
 %str(proc freq; table x);  *note no semicolon inside the %str function;
%mend;

Then the SAS code:
%bad
* whatever;

Resolves to:

proc freq; table x * whatever;

Perfectly legal executable code, without any comments, right?
"* whatever" is part of the table statement in proc freq, not a comment.

If I'm missing your point, my apologies

Karl