What has been your most common programming mistake?
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Answer / arun
Missing a semicolon at the end of the statement.
Missing to write END statement after the ending of the DO-loop
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Answer / chiranjeevi
1)filenames are spelled incorrectly.
2)missing the semicolon at the end of the sas statements
3)keywords are apelled incorrectly.
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Answer / s.bhattacharya
Well there has been lot of mistakes...but the one i do frequently is to miss writing "QUIT" after a "PROC SQL"....
This creates a big hang issue when u r dealing with large data files
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