topic Re: Macro functions in SAS Programming

Macro functions

robertrao — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:15:46 GMT

HI Team,

could you explain why there has to be braces after date function!!

title "%sysfunc(date(),word date.) absence report"

Thanks

Reeza — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:26:36 GMT

To differentiate it from a variable called date.

date() is a function that returns todays date, just a function that doesn't require any parameters, so nothing inside the brackets.

data test;

a=date();

date='01Jan2012'd;

run;

robertrao — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:44:42 GMT

Hi,

Thanks so very much for the example.

Regards

robertrao — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:08:49 GMT

Hi,

I could not mark this answer as Right Answer. Some technical error.

Regards