Problem Note 52116: A macro warning message might be issued if a % character is in a TITLE or FOOTNOTE statement
The following warning message might be issued when a percent sign (%) character is in a TITLE or FOOTNOTE statement:
Warning: Apparent invocation of macro xxxx not resolved.
This problem is most likely to occur if the procedure that is producing the output is using ODS Graphics.
To circumvent the problem, use the %NRSTR macro function to mask the % character within the title. For example:
This produces the following title:
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS/GRAPH | z/OS | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Linux | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 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.
A macro warning message might be issued if a percent sign (%) character is in a TITLE or FOOTNOTE statement.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2014-01-20 10:59:52 |
| Date Created: | 2014-01-17 11:45:21 |
