topic Re: call symput in SAS Programming

call symput

PaulC — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 07:38:59 GMT

Hi all,

A simple question:

If I have the following code:

if variable = 0 then yyyy = year

if variable = 1 then yyyy = year-1

How can this be done with call symput?

It needs to be something like (not actual code, just an example):

if variable = '0' then call symput ('yyyy',year);
else if variable = '1' then call symput ('yyyy',year-1);

RW9 — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 08:16:55 GMT

Hi,

You don't mention much detail, is year numeric? if so then just add the variable (it being 0 or 1) to year and symput it?

call symput('YYYY',put(year+input(variable,best.),best.));

PaulC — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 08:52:42 GMT

thanks, I resolved this..