file name with a dash in SAS macro

bunnycao — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:37:33 GMT

Hi guys,

i'm trying to import several tables from external Access database into SAS. the access files names are like 'A2014' , 'A2015', and the tables in each file have names 'A2014-01' , 'A2014-02' ...

my code is

%macro loadin(year=, month=) ;

libname temp PCFILES path="C:\trial\A&year..accdb";

proc sql;

select a , b, c

from temp."A&year.-&month"n ;

quit;

%mend;

%loadin (year=2014, month=01) ;

so i succeeded in assigning the libname, linking the external access file with SAS. but in the proc sql step, error msg showed up , saying A2014-01 is not a valid SAS name. how do I edit my code to get around problem ??

Thanks,

Darren

Re: file name with a dash in SAS macro

PaigeMiller — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:43:07 GMT

Use

PROC SQL DQUOTE=ANSI;

Re: file name with a dash in SAS macro

SummerLee — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 06:24:11 GMT

Hi I got the same problem of dash in SAS macro too.

How did you solve the problem?

Thanks in advance!

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