topic Macro dates in SAS Programming

Macro dates

pangea17 — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 17:51:44 GMT

I am trying to create two macro dates using enterprise guide 7.1 SAS version 9.4. The first date is based off of today's date and works fine. alpha is yesterday. The second date is suppose to be the same day in the prior month from alpha. So if today is June 13, alpha is jun 12 and beta would be may 12.

data _null_;

call symputx('alpha', PUT(intnx('DAY',%SYSFUNC(today()),-1), date9.)); * yesterday;

call symputx('beta', PUT(intnx('MONTH',%SYSFUNC(&alpha,-1), date9.)); * last month same day;

RUN;

Re: Macro dates

novinosrin — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:08:27 GMT

data _null_;

call symputx('alpha', PUT(intnx('DAY',today(),-1), date9.)); * yesterday;

call symputx('beta', PUT(intnx('MONTH',today(),-1,'s'), date9.)); * last month same day;

RUN;

%put &alpha;

%put &beta;

Re: Macro dates

novinosrin — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:09:10 GMT

Corrected

data _null_;

call symputx('alpha', PUT(intnx('DAY',today(),-1), date9.)); * yesterday;

call symputx('beta', PUT(intnx('MONTH',today()-1,-1,'s'), date9.)); * last month same day;

RUN;

%put &alpha;

%put &beta;

Re: Macro dates

pangea17 — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:34:05 GMT

NOTE: Writing TAGSETS.SASREPORT13(EGSR) Body file: EGSR

25 GOPTIONS ACCESSIBLE;

26 data _null_;

27 call symputx('alpha', PUT(intnx('DAY',today(),-1), date9.)); * yesterday;

28 call symputx('beta', PUT(intnx('MONTH',today(),-1,-1,'s'), date9.)); * yesterday;

29 RUN;

NOTE: Numeric values have been converted to character values at the places given by: (Line):(Column).

28:51

NOTE: Argument 5 to function INTNX('MONTH',21348,-1,' -1','s') at line 28 column 26 is invalid.

_ERROR_=1 _N_=1

NOTE: Mathematical operations could not be performed at the following places. The results of the operations have been set to

missing values.

Each place is given by: (Number of times) at (Line):(Column).

1 at 28:26

NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):

real time 0.01 seconds

cpu time 0.00 seconds

Re: Macro dates

novinosrin — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:41:02 GMT

@pangea17 you didn't quite exactly copy paste my code

there is a difference in the 2nd call symputx with yours and mine. Kindly review thoroughly. Please and thank you

mine: call symputx('beta', PUT(intnx('MONTH',today()-1,-1,'s'), date9.)); * last month same day;

yours: call symputx('beta', PUT(intnx('MONTH',today(),-1,-1,'s'), date9.)); * yesterday;

Re: Macro dates

pangea17 — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:42:15 GMT

That did work great! Thank you.

Re: Macro dates

novinosrin — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:42:38 GMT

I'm glad. Have fun!

Re: Macro dates

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:47:20 GMT

@pangea17 wrote:

I am trying to create two macro dates using enterprise guide 7.1 SAS version 9.4. The first date is based off of today's date and works fine. alpha is yesterday. The second date is suppose to be the same day in the prior month from alpha. So if today is June 13, alpha is jun 12 and beta would be may 12.

data _null_;

call symputx('alpha', PUT(intnx('DAY',%SYSFUNC(today()),-1), date9.)); * yesterday;

call symputx('beta', PUT(intnx('MONTH',%SYSFUNC(&alpha,-1), date9.)); * last month same day;

RUN;

In your code, the macro preprocessor tries to resolve &alpha before it is created.

%sysfunc only accepts a data step function call as its argument, and not a macro variable.

A previous day is calculated best by simply subtracting 1 from a date.

data _null_;
call symputx('alpha', put(today()-1, date9.)); * yesterday;
call symputx('beta', put(intnx('month',today()-1,-1), date9.)); * last month same day;
run;