Date:         Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:29:51 -0400
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From:         Bob Abelson <Bob_Abelson@HGSI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Quoting problem
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Sig,

That was just perfect.

Bob Abelson
HGSI
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Quoth the Maven, 'Nevermore'!

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sas-l@listserv.uga.edu [mailto:owner-sas-l@listserv.uga.edu]
On Behalf Of Gregg P. Snell
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 7:54 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: RE: Quoting problem


SCL Joe,

You might borrow a quote from your cosmic twin Baghdad Bob: "On this
occasion, I am not going to mention the number of the ampersands* who
were killed and the number of destroyed percentsigns**. The operation
continues"

Let the Friday humor begin!

(* originally 'infidels')
(** originally 'vehicles')


-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jim
Groeneveld
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 1:59 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Quoting problem

Joe,

I challenge you to prove or at least concretely illustrate your
assertion in this specific case. Provide SCL code doing the same.
Otherwise your claim is nothing more than hot air ("baked air" as we use
to say in Dutch).

Regards - Jim.

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 23:31:04 -0400, Joe Whitehurst
<joewhitehurst@GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>Alain,
>
>I hope you will not mind if I take the opportunity provided by your
totally
>unnecessary distress to point out once again that the problem you are
>experiencing has been completely designed out of the more modern SAS
>Component Language.  Your problem _cannot_ happen if you were to use
>the more modern SAS Component Language to generate whatever batch code
>your
are
>trying to generate rather than the Antiquated Macro Language.  Why
>would
any
>programmers in any state of mind continue down this intellectually
bankrupt
>path just to bring grief upon themselves and possibly their heirs?
>
>Joe
>
>
>On 7/6/06, Alain Follet <alain.follet@sham.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I have two quoting problems. First, I don't manage to path a macro
>> variable in a quoting syntax. Here is the syntax :
>>
>> %let WebUrl = www.sas.com
>>
>> ods html body="C:\temp\test.html";
>>
>> ods html text= '<div align="center"><input class="c Header"
>> type="button" value="Aide"
>>               onclick=javascript:window.open
>>   (url="http://&WebUrl")></div>';
>>
>> ods html close;
>>
>> The macro variable is not recognize ... In the html file, it is
>> written &webUrl and not the value of the macro parameter ? Have you
>> got an idea in order to change that ?
>>
>> The second problem I have, is for written in the last syntax
>> something like that in the value parameter : value="L'aide en ligne"
>> because I still have a single quote at the begining of the
>> expression.
>>
>> Many thanks for your help, adeas ,experiences, ....
>>
>> Alain Follet
>>