Stefan Pohl wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible in SAS to enforce a linebreak in SAS code with _ > without having to break the lines manually ?

If you are talking about a PUT statement to a text file, and manual (apologies to the femanual) meaning

PUT 'line 1'; PUT 'line 2';

Then you have these alternatives

PUT 'line 1' / 'line 2'; or PUT 'line 1' '0a'x 'line 2';

/ is a newline directive of the PUT statement. '0a'x is the ASCII code for newline. Won't newline on EBCDIC systems. Some OS have different newline sequences such as '0D0A'x (windows/dos) or '0D'x (mac)

-- Richard A. DeVenezia http://www.devenezia.com/