Date:         Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:20:01 GMT
Reply-To:     Ace <b.rogers@VIRGIN.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Ace <b.rogers@VIRGIN.NET>
Subject:      Re: %input in SAS macro

On 5 Sep 01 09:56:27 GMT, ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE (Gerhard Hellriegel)
wrote:

>Have a look into the online help or macro guide for the %WINDOW statement.
>As I remember, the %INPUT statement is only valid in interactive line-mode.

That's not actually the case. Yeon's code works quite happily for me,
although he doesn't say what platform or version he's using...

Your %window code <snipped> may of course solve his problems, by
tackling it differently, but it depends what he wants.

>On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:39:38 -0700, ywr1 <yeon_rhee@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

>>hi,
>>
>>please help me if you can...
>>i typed simple macro codes, which
>>were shown on sas on-line manual.
>>
>>%macro test;
>>   %put *** Enter two values: ***;
>>   %input;
>>   %put *** %superq(sysbuffr) ***;
>>%mend test;
>>%test;
>>
>>however, all i could see on sas log was that
>>
>>ERROR: READ ACCESS VIOLATION IN TASK [SUBMIT]
>>EXCEPTION OCCURRED AT [675AB11A]
>>TASK TRACEBACK

As I said at the top, this works fine when I try it. What version and
platform are you using?

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