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SAS System Options

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

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Examples

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


Examples

This statement produces the output [TEST TITLE]:

title '?<TEST TITLE?>';

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