Date:         Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:20:24 -0800
Reply-To:     "Choate, Paul@DDS" <pchoate@DDS.CA.GOV>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Choate, Paul@DDS" <pchoate@DDS.CA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Smallest SAS program?

Well, here are 6, 11, or 16 bytes.  The 11 byte has the caveat that it must
be first stored as a file named "t" in the default directory.

%inc*;

%inc"t";ru;

dat;a:goto a;ru;

I'm interested in Jim's 7 byte solution...

The

Paul Choate
DDS Data Extraction
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-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jim
Groeneveld
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 12:29 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Smallest SAS program?

Hi friends,

I think a 0-byte program file isn't actually a program, neither is a single
space. And a single character macro call needs a macro definition
somewhere. Even null statements like ';' are not really programs, because
they do not tell SAS to do _something_ at all. So even my current
suggestion, a single asterisk (without a semicolon and run in batch), which
only starts a comment actually should not be regarded a _program_. Examples
of programs doing at least something already have been given (like 'x;').

But I have liked the ideas on how to let SAS do (almost) nothing very much.
However, it should have been Friday.......... ;-)

And now for next Friday, let's invent the smallest program, which actually
does something special, keeping SAS busy for all the time, that is putting
SAS in an endless, infinite loop, whether while causing errors or not!

Regards - Jim.
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