Date:         Sat, 1 Nov 1997 02:45:59 +0000
Reply-To:     John Whittington <johnw@MAG-NET.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         John Whittington <johnw@MAG-NET.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Strange behaviour of 6.10
Comments: To: "SAS & OS/2: THE PERFECT TEAM." <JAMES@UCRAC1.UCR.EDU>
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"SAS & OS/2: THE PERFECT TEAM." <JAMES@UCRAC1.UCR.EDU> wrote:
 
>Has anyone else witnessed the following behavior of SAS 6.10 on Win 95. The
>following program gets stuck in an infinite loop:
>
>data foo;
>        do while(I<20) ;
>                x=ranuni(0);
>                i+1;
>                output;
>        end;
>run;
>
>On matching the case in the while clause with that of the counter, it
>executes normally. I am unaware of SAS being (intrinsically) case sensitive.
>Needless to say I cann't replicate the problem on another machine...
 
James, it workes fine, regardless of case (for either occurence of i/I) on
6.12/Win95.
 
Regards
 
John
 
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