topic Re: Assign Output To Variable in SAS Programming

Assign Output To Variable

Phaneendra — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 01:46:50 GMT

How do i assign the SINGLE output of an step to a variable inside a macro?

E.G: There is only one distinct value of a character variable in a dataset. I want to assign that Distinct Value to 't';

Please Help, How Can We Do It?

It's like i want:

%Let t = %Eval(Proc Sql; Select Distinct(XYZ) From Prq; Quit;)

Ksharp — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 03:12:39 GMT

proc sql;
Select Distinct(XYZ) into : T
 From Prq;
Quit;

%put &T ;

Astounding — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 03:13:44 GMT

SQL will do that for you. Include a separator, just in case there is more than one possible value for XYZ:

proc sql;

select distinct xyz into : t separated by ' ' from Prq;

quit;