Usage Note 31699: Unbalanced quotes in a SAS® session can cause the SAS program to loop
If you have unbalanced quotes in a SAS session, it will affect the rest of the code you submit in your current SAS session. Therefore, you need to balance the quotation marks.
You might see the following error in the SAS log window if you run into this problem:
WARNING 32-169: The quoted string currently being processed
has become more than 262 characters long. You may have
unbalanced quotation marks.
To correct this problem perform the following:
Submit this string from the Program Editor:
*';*";
run;
Operating System and Release Information
SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Solaris for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
Date Modified: | 2008-07-29 07:58:47 |
Date Created: | 2008-04-07 14:11:55 |