In SAS 9.2, a fourth parameter was added to the Base SAS SCAN function. Although this new parameter is valid in Base SAS, the SCL SCAN function that passes through to the Base SAS function was not enhanced to accept this parameter.

The following example specifies the fourth parameter within SCL code:

   INIT:                                               
      length text $50;     
      text='This is the first   day of the week, it is Monday.';     
      word=scan(text,1,'09'x,'m');        
      put WORD=;                  
   return;

This code generates the following messages in the SAS Log:

   NOTE: Compiling B.SCL.
   ERROR: [Line 4]  Function SCAN has too many arguments.
   ERROR: Compile error(s) detected. No code generated.

However, similar code executed from Base SAS works as expected.

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