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Problem Note 46316: Long invalid macro variable name within %SYMEXIST truncates error message
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Using the %SYMEXIST function with a long invalid macro variable name (less than the limit of 32 characters) causes the error message to be truncated. For example:
%put %symexist(a abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz);
The error received is:
ERROR: Symbolic variable name A ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ must contain only letters, digits,and un
The error should say:
ERROR: Symbolic variable name A ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ must contain only letters, digits, and underscores.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 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 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||