What's your best trick to break out of an unbalanced quote condition in BASE SAS?

Question

As a base SAS programmer, you know the drill: 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. What's your best trick for not having those unbalanced quotes bother you?

Answer 1

The simple answer, which is possibly not ideal, is to just restart your SAS session.

Alternatively, there are a variety of options for "one size fits all" 1-line code strings you could submit to "close out" the offending issue such as:

*); */; /* ' */ /* " */; %mend; quit; run;

Note that %mend will solve an open %macro definition but will generate an inoffensive log ERROR message otherwise.