topic Re: Assign the text to a variable in SAS Programming

Assign the text to a variable

Yen — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:07:59 GMT

I need to assign the below text to a variable X in sas data step.

<br>Learn more at <a href= https://www.test.com/preferred-rewards target="_blank"style="text-decoration: underline"> www.test.com/preferred-rewards </a><br>

data test;

<br>Learn more at <a href= https://www.bankofamerica.com/preferred-rewards target="_blank"style="text-decoration: underline"> www.bankofamerica.com/preferred-rewards </a><br>

run;

As the above text has several escape quotes etc., I decided that I need help. Any help is appreciated.

Re: Assign the text to a variable

RW9 — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:10:30 GMT

Just put single quotes around the text, escapes do not matter in this instance:

data test;
x=
'<br>Learn more at <a href= https://www.bankofamerica.com/preferred-rewards target="_blank"style="text-decoration: underline"> www.bankofamerica.com/preferred-rewards </a><br>';
run;

Re: Assign the text to a variable

ballardw — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:27:46 GMT

If your data is going to have more than one record you do want to make sure that you declare a length long enough to hold the longest value X can take. If this is the first time you use X it has basically aquired the length of that statment. If you attempt reuse X later to hold another string that is longer it will be truncated.