Date:         Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:55:18 +0000
Reply-To:     toby dunn <tobydunn@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         toby dunn <tobydunn@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: An extra %-sign display in the output table for a macro
              variable value
Comments: To: rjf2@CDC.GOV
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Ron,

I was just thinking that superq would be a perfect fit for this problem.
However I am not too sure how well HTML will like a % sign hanging out
there.  Guess it depends on where you use it at.



Toby Dunn





From: "Fehd, Ronald J" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Reply-To: "Fehd, Ronald J" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: An extra %-sign display in the output table for a macro
      variable value
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:32:51 -0500

<sigh> when is the character you want printed
        exactly what you typed?

last suggestions:
%str(%)
%nrstr(%)
%nrbquote(%)

LaTeX is more simple

Ron Fehd  the macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Jian-Hua Chen
 > Thank for the suggestions. Actually these have already been tried that
 > before the posting.  dQuotes/sQuotes both still yielded "%%",
 > and double
 > percent signs resulted in "%%%%".
 >
 > We got the following answer from SAS Support:
 >
 > "Unfortunately, you have run into a known problem with PROC
 > Template in SAS
 > 9.1. As you
 > mentioned, this problem did not occur in SAS 8.2. I apologize for the
 > inconvenience. "
 >
 > Sounds like there is no fix to this problem, not even from
 > SAS Support.