https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Using-arithmetic-in-a-macro-variable/m-p/704470#M26132 <P>Hi all!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If I were to create a macro variable like below, when I run %PUT &amp;=Variable, it simply returns 15+85. Is there a way to evaluate the equation and return 100 instead?</P><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>%LET Variable = 15+85;</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Thank you!</DIV> Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:43:27 GMT kaitlineolson7 2020-12-08T17:43:27Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Using-arithmetic-in-a-macro-variable/m-p/704470#M26132 <P>Hi all!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If I were to create a macro variable like below, when I run %PUT &amp;=Variable, it simply returns 15+85. Is there a way to evaluate the equation and return 100 instead?</P><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>%LET Variable = 15+85;</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Thank you!</DIV> Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:43:27 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Using-arithmetic-in-a-macro-variable/m-p/704470#M26132 kaitlineolson7 2020-12-08T17:43:27Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Using-arithmetic-in-a-macro-variable/m-p/704471#M26133 <P>Integer arithmetic: %eval, floating point %sysevalf</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>%let variable = 15 + 85;</P> <P>%put %eval(&amp;variable.);</P> Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:45:56 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Using-arithmetic-in-a-macro-variable/m-p/704471#M26133 ballardw 2020-12-08T17:45:56Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Using-arithmetic-in-a-macro-variable/m-p/704478#M26135 <P>Please see the answers in this thread:&nbsp;<A href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Creating-a-Macro-variable/td-p/704449" target="_blank">https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Creating-a-Macro-variable/td-p/704449</A></P> Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:57:53 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Using-arithmetic-in-a-macro-variable/m-p/704478#M26135 PaigeMiller 2020-12-08T17:57:53Z