topic Re: How to get rid of %nrquote in DI Studio in SAS Programming

How to get rid of %nrquote in DI Studio

ThomasH — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:57:22 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to get rid of %nrquote for an option of a user written tool.

I have set up 2 options and for 1 of them %nrquote should not be used in the gererated code. Setting it to Integer as attribute of the option does not help.

Background:

%let x = %nrquote(7);
[...]
data &_output.;
[...]
input (fln1-fln&_x) ($);
run;
[...]

Attaching &_x nrquoted does not work, with %let x = 7 it works.

Thanks and regards,
Thomas

Re: How to get rid of %nrquote in DI Studio

Patrick — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:02:56 GMT

Hi Thomas

Not sure if that will help you:

What I encountered in DI was that options (macrovars) were somehow quoted which caused problems when using the macrovar values in comparisons.
What helped was (in user written code) to %unquote() them.

if myvar=%unquote(&myoptionMvar) then....

HTH
Patrick

Re: How to get rid of %nrquote in DI Studio

LinusH — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:45:30 GMT

Patrick's tip has helped me as well several times, and it will help in this situation as well, except for...just of curiosity, could it really work with x = 7? x and _x are totally different macro variables...?! Have you defined _x somewhere else in your code perhaps or is it a typo?

Regards,
Linus

Re: How to get rid of %nrquote in DI Studio

ThomasH — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:00:47 GMT

Hi,

that was a typo indeed, but %unquote helped out anyway!

Thanks a lot,
Thomas