topic Re: issue with the code in SAS Procedures

issue with the code

andy_wk — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:27:37 GMT

I have this code. I have the error below when I'm on the toto data step.

WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference TODAY not resolved.

Why?

%macro t12;

%let today=%sysfunc(compress(%sysfunc(today(),yymmddd10.),'-'));

%mend;

%t12;

data toto;

itu=put &today;

run;

andy_wk — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:41:06 GMT

Tough thing.

I realized that this would suffice

%let today=%sysfunc(compress(%sysfunc(today(),yymmddd10.),'-'));

data toto;

itu=&today;

run;

Thanks.

RW9 — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:48:32 GMT

Or you could put it in the yymmddn8 format (the n means no delimiter):

today=%sysfunc(today(),yymmddn8.);

&today.;

andy_wk — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:59:18 GMT

%let today=%sysfunc(today(),yymmddn8.);

RW9 — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 10:02:51 GMT

Copy and paste issue from SAS, normally I would copy to notepad first then into here but was in hurry. The full code was:

%let today=%sysfunc(today(),yymmddn8.);

%put &today.;

Strange it drops the first %keyword.