topic Re: Date from prompt's macro variable needs coverted to mmddyy10 format for report header in SAS Enterprise Guide

Date from prompt's macro variable needs coverted to mmddyy10 format for report header

eg_michael — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:50:33 GMT

Platform: SAS EG

Problem: I have a macro variable (&PV_EndDate) from a date prompt that I display in a reaport header. The date is displayed as 31Dec2016, but I want it displayed as 12/31/2016. After much trial an error I cannot get it to work. Any Suggestions?

My Code:

data _null_;

%put &PV_EndDate; /* prints '31Dec2016' to log */

End_Date="&PV_EndDate"d;

newDate = put(&&End_Date,mmddyy10.);

put newDate; /* prints '12/31/2016' to log */

%Global MV_EndDate;

%let MV_EndDate = newDate;

run;

%put &MV_EndDate; /* prints 'newDate' to log */

Header Code:

TITLE3 "End Date: &MV_EndDate";

Re: Date from prompt's macro variable needs coverted to mmddyy10 format for report header

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:58:07 GMT

You need to transfer the value of the data step variable into the macro variable.

call symput('mv_enddate',mv_enddate);

in the data step.

%let is a macro statement and therefore executed when the code is gathered to be compiled for the data step. It can never access data step variables.

Re: Date from prompt's macro variable needs coverted to mmddyy10 format for report header

eg_michael — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 19:06:41 GMT

Thank You!