Date:         Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:09:55 -0400
Reply-To:     Ian Whitlock <WHITLOI1@WESTAT.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Ian Whitlock <WHITLOI1@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Comment issue
Comments: To: Walter Scott <Walter.Scott@STATE.TN.US>
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Walter,

I used SAS 8.2 under XP and found no problem.

1    filename xx 'c:\junk';
2    * %;
3    %include xx(test.sas) / source2;
NOTE: %INCLUDE (level 1) file XX(test.sas) is file c:\junk\test.sas.
4   +%put OK ;
OK
NOTE: %INCLUDE (level 1) ending.

Perhaps you should show a log as simple as the above one and give more
information about the system.

IanWhitlock@westat.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Scott [mailto:Walter.Scott@STATE.TN.US]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 1:58 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Comment issue


  All,
     Can anyone provide an explanation for why the second include is ignored
in the following:

options source2;
filename xx 'c:\';
* %include xx(file1.sas);
%include xx(file2.sas);

     This problem also occurs with the following:

options source2;
filename xx 'c:\';
* %;
%include xx(file2.sas);
/* The INCLUDE has been removed from the comment */

     I'm guessing this might have something to with the fact that '*'
comments are considered statements etc., but the above examples have no
mismatched quotes.  I can avoid the issue by using '/* */' style comments;
I'm just curious about what is happening here.
     I halfway expect the answer to be so obvious that I'm going to be
embarrassed that I even asked.

Walter