topic Re: %let currdt=put(today(),yymmdd10.) in SAS Procedures

%let currdt=put(today(),yymmdd10.)

hellind — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 10:40:10 GMT

I run a script everyday. And the below variable assigned is changed everyday. I want to avoid manually changing.

%let currdt=20150708;

How to automate the variable assignment to today()? Using the minimal coding.

Something like this %let currdt=put(today(),yymmdd10.)?

If I use DATA _NULL_ then the variable can only be used inside the datastep. This variable will be used everywhere in script.

hellind — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 10:54:03 GMT

data _NULL_;

call symputx('currdt' ,put(today(), yymmddn8.));

output;

run;

MadhuKorni — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 11:55:57 GMT

As you are not creating any dataset, there is no need to use output statement in the code.

data _NULL_;

call symputx('currdt' ,put(today(), yymmddn8.));

run;

Ksharp — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 11:57:40 GMT

%let currdt=%sysfunc(today(),yymmdd10.) ;