<p>As a base SAS programmer, you know the drill:</p>

<p>You submit your SAS code, which contains an unbalanced quote, so now you've got not only and unclosed quote, but also unclosed comments, macro function definitions, and a missing run; or quit; statement.</p>

<p>What's your best trick for not having those unbalanced quotes bother you?</p>

As for myself, I usually
Google for "SAS unbalanced quote"
, and end up with submitting something like
this
:
```
```
*); */; /*’*/ /*”*/; %mend;
```
```
... to break out of unclosed comments, quotes and macro functions.