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sungi cho
sungi cho

Reputation: 11

How to use line comments to separate and annotate the sections of the more than 2 programs in SAS?

How to use line comments to separate and annotate the sections of the more than 2 programs in one editor in SAS?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 109

Answers (2)

Yick Leung
Yick Leung

Reputation: 1078

Similar to what Joe has said, SAS will ignore the line beginning with " * " until it reaches the first semicolon ";".

Alternatively, You could also use /* and */ (no spaces between * and /) to comment out a line or a block of text.

/*

text that will be ignored by SAS and appear as comments

*/

All the statements and code between /* and */ will be ignored when you execute your program.

Upvotes: 0

Joe
Joe

Reputation: 63424

A line comment in SAS is made like so:

*this is a line comment;

Starts with an asterisk (*) and ends with a semicolon.

So you might use that to document your code by preceding sections of code with line comments that explain what the code is doing, what parameters are expected for a macro, or what attributes datasets might contain.

Upvotes: 1

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