topic Replacing Text Strings Using Macro Variables in SAS Programming

Replacing Text Strings Using Macro Variables

AlexeyS — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:39:18 GMT

%let city = New Orleans;

title "Data for &city";

Why when i run these two statements, i still get "Data for &city" and not "Data for New Orleans" ?

thank you

RW9 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:58:14 GMT

You need to provide some information, I can tell nothing from that, and:

%let city = New Orleans;

title "Data for &city";

proc print data=sashelp.cars;
run;

Works fine for me.

Astounding — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:13:33 GMT

That would happen if you actually used a slightly different set of statements:

%let city = New Orleans;

title 'Data for &city';

Single quotes need to be changed to double quotes, to permit macro variable values to resolve.

If that's not what happened, you'll need to post the log (including the step before these statements). There are other, less likely, possibilities.

emrancaan — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:15:06 GMT

Proc print;
%let city = New Orleans;

title "Data for" &city;
Run;

Shmuel — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:45:09 GMT

Move %LET staement before thr PROC PRINT line and move the &city inside the double quotes.