syntax for depth of if-then-do loops?

greendonuts · Post by **greendonuts** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:14 pm

Hi. Does anyone have syntax for .sas (or anything else) that I can use to tell the depth of a do-loop? Sort of like MS-Excel has colored parentheses that match so you can tell how many you have to enter on each side of your expression, I'd like some colored text to show the deepest level of do-loop, or something like that. I have been assigned the task of decoding someone's old .sas files, and they just loved nested nested nested do loops.

Thank you.

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:25 pm

Not sure if this is what you are looking for but did you take a look at the add-ons here? http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/synn2t.html

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SAS (1)  Syntax definitions for SAS. 
Contributed by Jared Schettler  
SAS (2)  Alternative syntax definitions for SAS. 
Contributed by James Hoffman, 2 October 2000  
SAS (3)  Syntax definitions for SAS. 
Original contribution by Jared Schettler, updated by Charlie Mills, 12 August 2003.

Also note that in TP you can always press Ctrl-M to match a bracket, if you don't like Ctrl-M you can asssign a diffrent keyboard shortcut from Configure->Preferences->Keyboard. HTH

greendonuts · Post by **greendonuts** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:14 pm

Thanks, yes, I checked all the sas add-ins.

talleyrand · Post by **talleyrand** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:47 pm

Not that it'll help with color coding but if there are brackets (haven't seen SAS so I don't know), Ctrl-M will match them. Worst case scenario, people on here have put brackets or braces in comments and used them to match structures.

while true #(
#stuff in here
#more stuff
end while #)

greendonuts · Post by **greendonuts** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:32 pm

Talleyrand - Hilarious sig

Thanks very much. I find this intriguing. I know nothing, nothing about textpad coding; is this example part of the syntax-file language? Where would I find more examples of structure matching?

talleyrand wrote:Not that it'll help with color coding but if there are brackets (haven't seen SAS so I don't know), Ctrl-M will match them. Worst case scenario, people on here have put brackets or braces in comments and used them to match structures.

while true #(
#stuff in here
#more stuff
end while #)