Most of the time I think that I know the SAS macro language pretty well. But then along comes some simple problem like the following to knock my ego back down to size:

%macro testit(arg1); %put &arg1; %mend testit;

%testit(%nrquote(a&b))

Now, what I want to happen in this case is to have the text "a&b" printed. I do get the text printed ok (as long as a macro variable named b doesn't happen to exist), but I also get the log warning about apparant symbolic reference B not resolved.

How can I get values like this to print without attempting attempting the macro variable substitution? I tried using %nrquote and even %superq in the %put statement, and that didn't have any effect (I didn't really think that it would). Surely I must be overlooking something obvious...?

Thanks, s/KAM