Date:         Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:53:22 +0100
Reply-To:     Allen Ziegenfus <aziegenfus@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Allen Ziegenfus <aziegenfus@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: %nrquote issue with arrays
Comments: To: Chang Chung <chang_y_chung@HOTMAIL.COM>
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I am pretty sure this is a bug. I also had a similar problem here:

http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0811B&L=sas-l&D=0&P=24812


Allen




Am 21.12.2010 um 15:25 schrieb Chang Chung <chang_y_chung@HOTMAIL.COM>:

> On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:35:06 -0500, S=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C3=B8ren?= Lassen
> <s.lassen@POST.TELE.DK> wrote:
> ...
>> Never saw that one before - but then I normally try to limit macro
>> quoting to the absolutely necessary. This is a bug, isn't it? or is
>> this behaviour expected, useful and documented?
>
> Hi, Søren:
>
> The closest thing to the documentation about this is the manual page on
> %unquote()'ing -- see the last paragraph about the case of %bquote()'d
> quote characters. http://tinyurl.com/2brw9h5 or
> http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/mcrolref/61885/HTML/default/
> viewer.htm#tw3514-unquote.htm
>
> I would rather not think of this as an implementation bug. It looks rather
> be an unintended consequence of how macro works. If there was someone to
> blame, then it probably is the original architect of SAS's macro system,
> maybe...
>
> Cheers,
> Chang
>