Usage Note 40069: Question mark entered as a constant in the Viewtable WHERE EXPRESSION window might yield unexpected results
When attempting to use the WHERE EXPRESSION window within the Viewtable interface, you could experience unexpected results.
If you attempt to define a WHERE subset for your table, and enter a ? as a constant value, you might see the following Help window display:
However, if you select <LOOKUP distinct values> instead of <CONSTANT enter value>, you can select the ? from the list of values for the column and the Help window will not display.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS/AF | Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| z/OS | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
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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.
| Type: | Usage Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | Common Programming Tasks
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| Date Modified: | 2010-06-28 15:11:52 |
| Date Created: | 2010-06-21 16:42:12 |
