Date:         Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:59:28 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (PHPPO)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (PHPPO)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Macro Question?
Comments: cc: "Ross, Michael D" <michael.ross@ASTRAZENECA.COM>
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> From: Ross, Michael D [mailto:michael.ross@ASTRAZENECA.COM]
>  This piece of data gets fed into a Macro variable, but
> because of the extra parenthesis - it causes sas to blow. Is
> there a way to read whatever is in the dataset variable as
> pure text and bypass any tokens that cause this problem?
>
> datalines;
> (HELLO) THERE)

you can clean up your var w/this:

DataLines = translate(DataLines
                     ,'  ' %*to space;
                     ,'()' %*from parens;
                     );

Ron Fehd  the macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2@cdc.gov

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