Date:         Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:21:48 -0500
Reply-To:     Ian Whitlock <WHITLOI1@WESTAT.COM>
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Comments:     To: BARBERO Charly <Charly.BARBERO@CNCE.CAISSE-EPARGNE.FR>
From:         Ian Whitlock <WHITLOI1@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Problem with quotes
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Charly,

I was struggling with this problem just a few days ago, too busy to see your
question.  In my case I wanted the equivalent of

%let longmac = %sysfunc(repeat( 123456789+, 200 )) ;
data w1 ;
   length longvar $ 2010 ;
   retain longvar "&longmac" ;
run ;

This code triggers the message.  The problem is that the compiler
automatically triggers the message for long quoted strings.  The answer is
to use

%let longmac = %sysfunc(repeat( 123456789+, 200 )) ;
data w1 ;
   length longvar $ 2010 ;
   longvar = symget ( "longmac" ) ;
run ;

IanWhitlock@westat.com


-----Original Message-----
From: BARBERO Charly [mailto:Charly.BARBERO@CNCE.CAISSE-EPARGNE.FR]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:55 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Problem with quotes


Does someone know how to put more than 262 caracters between quotes ? I
always have this message in my macro :

WARNING 32-169: The quoted string currently being processed has become
more than 262 characters long.  You may have unbalanced quotation marks.

Thank's for all