topic Re: Call symput - Macro date? in SAS Programming

Call symput - Macro date?

ybz12003 — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:10:01 GMT

Hello:

I would like to have create a system today format with YYYY_MM_DD. Something wrong with my code below, could someone help me to fix it? Thanks.

data Today;

input Today : $50.;

call symput('tdate',put(year("&sysdate"d),4.)||'_'||put(month("&sysdate"d),z2.)||'_'||put(day("&sysdate"d),z2.));

run;

Re: Call symput - Macro date?

novinosrin — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:23:22 GMT

Are you after this?


data _null_;

/*input Today : $50.;*/

call symput('tdate',put(year("&sysdate"d),4.)||'_'||put(month("&sysdate"d),z2.)||'_'||put(day("&sysdate"d),z2.));

run;

%put &tdate;

Re: Call symput - Macro date?

ballardw — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:46:17 GMT

@ybz12003 wrote:

Hello:

I would like to have create a system today format with YYYY_MM_DD. Something wrong with my code below, could someone help me to fix it? Thanks.

data Today;

input Today : $50.;

call symput('tdate',put(year("&sysdate"d),4.)||'_'||put(month("&sysdate"d),z2.)||'_'||put(day("&sysdate"d),z2.));

run;

What is "wrong"?

Your code shows an input statement with no source to read.

Which is why you get the error:

ERROR: No DATALINES or INFILE statement.

Did you read the log? That is a fairly clear error message.

Re: Call symput - Macro date?

ybz12003 — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:46:10 GMT

I did see the error message, that's why I post Q.