CHARCODE System Option

Specifies whether specific keyboard combinations are substituted for special characters that are not on the keyboard.

Valid in:	Configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window
Category:	Environment control: Display
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	ENVDISPLAY
Note:	This option can be restricted by a site administrator. For more information, see Restricted Options.

Syntax

Details

Example

Syntax

CHARCODE | NOCHARCODE

Syntax Description

CHARCODE: allows certain character combinations to be substituted for special characters that might not be on your keyboard.

NOCHARCODE: does not allow substitutions for certain keyboard characters.

Details

If you do not have the following symbols on your keyboard, you can use these character combinations to create the symbols that you need when CHARCODE is active:

Symbol	Characters
back quotation mark (`)	?:
backslash (\)	?,
left brace ({)	?(
right brace (})	?)
logical not sign (¬ or ^)	?=
left square bracket ([)	?<
right square bracket (])	?>
underscore (_)	?-
vertical bar (\|)	?/

Example

This statement produces the output [TEST TITLE]:

title '?<TEST TITLE?>';