topic Re: This is probably pretty simple, but i want to add an underscore in front of a numeric variable. in SAS Programming

This is probably pretty simple, but i want to add an underscore in front of a numeric variable.

zscott1 — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:34:57 GMT

This is for macro automation purposes, I want to use my first variable x, to create a macro for the 2nd variable var2 which I already have code for

data _null;

set boundvec;

call symputx(x,var2,'G');

run;

but of course I get an error because x is a number; how can I simply add underscores infront of my x variables?

obs x var2

esjackso — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:47:47 GMT

Is this what you are looking for?:

call symputx( cats("_",x),var2,'G');

Hope this helps!

zscott1 — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:01:02 GMT

Exactly