For example:

%put ERROR: A;
%put ERROR- B;
%put ERROR- C;
%put "&syserrortext";

The following is displayed in the SAS Log:

1  %put ERROR: A;
ERROR: A
2  %put ERROR- B;
       B
3  %put ERROR- C;
       C
4  %put "&syserrortext";
"ABBCC"

The correct output for &SYSERRORTEXT should be:

"ABC"

The hyphen removes the ERROR, WARNING, or NOTE keyword from the text. It also allows the text to be a continuation from the previous %PUT statement that contains any of the above keywords.

There is currently no circumvention for this problem.

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