Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:11:17 -0500
Reply-To: Quentin McMullen <quentin_mcmullen@BROWN.EDU>
Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From: Quentin McMullen <quentin_mcmullen@BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: converting .sas file to .html
Thanks much Ed,
The job you sent produces an html file that is formatted more correctly
(and readably) than what mine spit out, but unfortunately it does not
achieve any of the symbol protecting/quoting/hiding that I am hoping for.
For example, if my macro code is:
%macro me(sum=
,note=0
);
%if ¬e %then %put The sum is ∑
%if a<b %then %do;
%end;
%mend me;
The browser interprets ¬e as being an html symbol ¬ followed by the
letter 'e', and "∑" is displayed as sigma. And everyting stops after
a< because the browser takes the '<' as the start of a bad tag. My hope
was to find a way to quote the sas code so that when viewed in a browser,
it would look like SAS code.
But working from within your example, it hit me that perhaps the only
important characters I need to quote are &, <, and >. Is that right? If
so, than perhaps it is as easy as adding a few calls to tranwrd, e.g.:
Data _null_ ;
InFile sasCode("junklog.sas") end=eof ;
File sasCode("junklog.html") ;
If ( _n_ eq 1 ) then put
@01 '<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 final//en">'
/ @01 '<html>'
/ @04 '<head>'
/ @07 "<title>My Macro </title>"
/ @04 '</head>'
/ @04 '<body>'
/ @07 '<pre>'
;
Input ;
_infile_=tranwrd(_infile_,'&','&');
_infile_=tranwrd(_infile_,'<','<');
_infile_=tranwrd(_infile_,'>','>');
Put _infile_ ;
If eof then put
@07 '</pre>'
/ @04 '</body>'
/ @01 '</html>'
;
Run ;
Should that suffice as a home-made version of protectspecialchars? Or are
there other chars I need to worry about?
Thanks again,
--Quentin
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