topic Re: Need macro to resolve to macro name in SAS Procedures

Need macro to resolve to macro name

BenHere — Tue, 12 May 2015 12:01:50 GMT

Hey does anyone know how to resolve &Key to &animal (or animal) and not platypus and not key?

12 %let animal = platypus;

13 %let key = &animal.;

15 %put %str(&key.);

platypus

16 %put %nrstr(&key.);

&key.

Re: Need macro to resolve to macro name

Tom — Tue, 12 May 2015 12:13:15 GMT

Not sure what you mean.

If you want &KEY to resolve to animal then set it to animal.

%let key=animal ;

If you want include macro trigger in the value then quote the trigger. Your attempt with %STR(&animal) is quoting the result of the macro variable expansion.

%let key=%str(&)animal ;

Re: Need macro to resolve to macro name

RW9 — Tue, 12 May 2015 12:27:39 GMT

The question from me would be why?

Re: Need macro to resolve to macro name

Ksharp — Tue, 12 May 2015 12:58:44 GMT

%let animal = platypus;

%let key = %nrstr(&animal.);

%put &key;

Re: Need macro to resolve to macro name

BenHere — Tue, 12 May 2015 13:09:33 GMT

Ahhh thank you Xia. This will work for what we need.

Inheriting large complicated programs is not much fun.

To all, thank you for responding.