topic Re: CALL SYMPUT not resolved in SAS Programming

CALL SYMPUT not resolved

bbpatterson — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:34:13 GMT

Hi,

I have this rather moody DATA step that will sometimes resolve and other times not.

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run;

DATA _NULL_;

CALL SYMPUT('TodaySas',PUT(TODAY(),5.));

CALL SYMPUT('OutWk1',PUT(TODAY()+7,5.));

CALL SYMPUT('OutWk2',PUT(TODAY()+14,5.));

CALL SYMPUT('OutWk3',PUT(TODAY()+21,5.));

CALL SYMPUT('OutWk4',PUT(TODAY()+28,5.));

CALL SYMPUT('OutWk5',PUT(TODAY()+35,5.));

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Specifically, the OutWk1-5 var will not resolve.

Is there a reason anyone off hand can think of to why the first var "TodaySas" resolves, but the others do not. Also, this is within a job that runs as part of a group of RSUBMT batches, so it typically fails in batch and will resolve fine once ran individually.

If there is no identifiable cause/solution to why this would fail, can someone please let me know how I can run a check on these to insure they resolve and if not loop back until they do?

Thank you in advance for your help!

-B

CALL SYMPUT not resolved

megha_gr82003 — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:18:47 GMT

its working fine for me...

This is the log and values...

949 DATA _NULL_;

950 CALL SYMPUT('TodaySas',PUT(TODAY(),5.));

951 CALL SYMPUT('OutWk1',PUT(TODAY()+7,5.));

952 CALL SYMPUT('OutWk2',PUT(TODAY()+14,5.));

953 CALL SYMPUT('OutWk3',PUT(TODAY()+21,5.));

954 CALL SYMPUT('OutWk4',PUT(TODAY()+28,5.));

955 CALL SYMPUT('OutWk5',PUT(TODAY()+35,5.));

956 run;

NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):

real time 0.00 seconds

cpu time 0.00 seconds

957

958 %put &TodaySas &OutWk1 &OutWk2 &OutWk3 &OutWk4 &OutWk5;

18802 18809 18816 18823 18830 18837

Re: CALL SYMPUT not resolved

Patrick — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:45:54 GMT

The code you've posted looks fine to me.

"...this is within a job that runs as part of a group of RSUBMT batches..."

Does this mean you create the macro vars in a rsubmit block but want to use them outside of this rsubmit block? If so: are you properly transfering the variables using %sysrput?

As you've only posted a code snippet: In case this code runs within a macro: Did you check that it's not only a local/global scope issue?

Re: CALL SYMPUT not resolved

sbb — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:00:24 GMT

Recommend the OP review this topic in the SAS DOC related to global and local macro variable scope. Which by the way is influenced by the use of a RUN; statement with a DATA step.

Also, it is most informative to COPY/PASTE an actual SAS log with all related diagnostic messages along with the SAS code execution (entire program, preferably).

Scott Barry

SBBWorks, Inc.

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