topic Re: Using macro variable in %Let in SAS Programming

Using macro variable in %Let

CP2 — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 18:59:38 GMT

Why doesn't this work ? It assigns the path with &diag as the string value and not the value of &diag. Is there a work-around ?

%Let diag=ovarian ;
%Let path=Z:\Analysis\&diag ;

SuryaKiran — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 19:30:50 GMT

%Let diag=ovarian ;

%Let path=%str(Z:\Analysis\&diag) ;

FYI

SASKiwi — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 19:33:12 GMT

Works fine for me:

23 %Let diag=ovarian ;
24 %Let path=Z:\Analysis\&diag ;
25
26 %put &path;
Z:\Analysis\ovarian

Please post your log.

Tim_SAS — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 19:35:58 GMT

Works for me:

SuryaKiran — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 19:36:39 GMT

Make sure you run %Let diag=ovarian ;

If you run only %Let path=Z:\Analysis\&diag ;
it will not resolve the macro variable.