String more than 262 characters

[eguva]

Hi,

I am trying to put a string into a word docuemnt with DDE.I am getting the warning below because the variable value is too long.May I please know how to get rid of this warning:

"The quoted string currently being processed has become more than 262 characters long. You may have unbalanced
quotation marks."

Thanks,
Eguva

 

[klaz2002]

This a limit of the SAS PUT statement. Perhaps you can 'split' the string and use two put statments. for the first 200 chars you could use the first PUT statement and the next 200 the second PUT etc..

 

[ChrisW75]

There is an option to turn off this warning as well.

options noquotelenmax;

That should switch off the warning for you.


Chris
Business Analyst, Code Monkey, Data Wrangler.
SAS Guru.

 

[eguva]

I am using version 8. I guess this is new in version right?
Please correct me if i am wrong.

Eguva

 

[ChrisW75]

No idea. Did you run it and it failed? I can't test because I don't have Version 8. If you run it and it fails with an unknown command type error, then it's a version 9 addition.

Chris
Business Analyst, Code Monkey, Data Wrangler.
SAS Guru.

 

[eguva]

Yes, I did run it and the error is "Unrecognized SAS option name, NOQUOTELENMAX"

Eguva