topic Re: quotes for macro variable in SAS Programming

quotes for macro variable

gzr2mz39 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:36:24 GMT

Where do I put the quotes in order to get this macro variable (ie &date) to work?
if (daysum=. and day< *&date.*d) then daysum=0;

where * is a single quote mark.
where &date can be, for example, 15Sep10.

Thank you.

Re: quotes for macro variable

art297 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:54:38 GMT

Have you tried it with double quotes?

Art

Re: quotes for macro variable

sbb — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:15:47 GMT

When using macro variables coded as literal constants/data-strings with DATA/PROC code, double-quotes are required for proper resolution. Also, when debugging your program, code the OPTIONS SYMBOLGEN, also consider this coding for debugging macros and macro variables:

OPTIONS SOURCE SOURCE2 MACROGEN SYMBOLGEN MPRINT;

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

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Re: quotes for macro variable

gzr2mz39 — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:33:17 GMT

Double quotes worked.
For what ever reason they didn't work the first time I tried.
Thanks.

Re: quotes for macro variable

PatrickG — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:45:04 GMT

With macros, use double quotes. The SAS Macro Facility will not look inside of single quotes.

Re: quotes for macro variable

chang_y_chung_hotmail_com — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:52:16 GMT

> With macros, use double quotes. The SAS Macro
> Facility will not look inside of single quotes.

Technically, this is too sweeping a statement. You cannot really say that Macro *never* look inside of single quotes as shown on the thread started with this sas-l posting.