Date:         Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:18:18 -0400
Reply-To:     sashole@bellsouth.net
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From:         "Paul M. Dorfman" <sashole@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Organization: Sashole of Florida
Subject:      Re: Double Duty for % Sign
Comments: To: Talbot Michael Katz <topkatz@MSN.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <200409072058.i87KwdQ1029825@listserv.cc.uga.edu>
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TMK,

If you *must* use the double quotes (or, optionally, no quotes at all)
because, for instance, of other macro references you might actually want to
resolve, replace % with %str(%), leaving everything else intact.

Kind regards,
----------------
Paul M. Dorfman
Jacksonville, FL
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Talbot Michael Katz
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 4:59 PM
> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Double Duty for % Sign
>
> Hi.
>
> This question probably has arisen before.  Here is a portion
> of my log from a print request that worked perfectly as
> desired, but generated warnings.
> My question is, is there a way to do this without generating warnings?
>
> 125  title3  "local  print
> SFD.SO04_S22_USE03_fuMOFI2_cont_1   (where
> =   (upcase(name)   like
> 125!     %_2005))"   ;
> WARNING: Apparent invocation of macro _2005 not resolved.
> 126  proc    print   data    =   SFD.SO04_S22_USE03_fuMOFI2_cont_1
> (where  =   (upcase(name)
> 126! like    "%_2005"))  noobs   ;
> WARNING: Apparent invocation of macro _2005 not resolved.
> 127      var name    ;
> 128  run ;
>
> NOTE: There were 38 observations read from the data set
> SFD.SO04_S22_USE03_FUMOFI2_CONT_1.
>       WHERE UPCASE(name) like '%_2005';
> NOTE: PROCEDURE PRINT used:
>       real time           0.00 seconds
>       cpu time            0.00 seconds
>
> Thanks!
>
> --  TMK  --
>