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Hi All:

I'm trying to compare two dates in a macro and I'm getting the error message:

ERROR: Required operator not found in expression: input("&enddate",yymmdd8.) < intnx('year',input("&startdate",yymmdd8.),0,'end')

The statement that's causing the error is this:

%if input("&enddate",yymmdd8.) < intnx('year',input(&startdate",yymmdd8.),0,'end') %then
%do;
...other stuff...

Here, enddate = 20090331. I've done comparisons like this in the past and have never had an error like this. I'm sure I'm overlooking something very basic.

Thanks,

T.M. Foy
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Lapis Lazuli | Level 10 sbb
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
You will need to explore using the %SYSFUNC macro language function when you want to integrate SAS CALL functions into macro language coding.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.
deleted_user
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Thanks, I'll try that.

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