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omega1983
Calcite | Level 5
In a sas library named claims I have the following:

claims.inv06_2010_1;
claims.inv06_2010_2;
claims.inv06_2010_3;
claims.inv06_2010_4;
......and so on up to about 100

I would normally have something like
data INV;
set claims.inv06_2010_1;
claims.inv06_2010_2;
claims.inv06_2010_3;
claims.inv06_2010_4;
run;

Is there a way to have a macro identify all of those claims.inv06_2010 tables without having to type out all of the tables individually. I have on average about 100 tables. This example is just for 1 year.
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RickM
Fluorite | Level 6
Try using the sashelp.vcolumn table and proc sql to select the table names into a macro variable.

Good luck!
Cynthia_sas
SAS Super FREQ
You don't actually need a macro program. As long as the names -start- with the same prefix, you can use the colon in a name list, as shown here:
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrcon/62955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a003040446.htm

See the section entitled, "Data Set Lists" which has an example of how to use the colon to refer to a data set list.

cynthia
RickM
Fluorite | Level 6
True, but if you are stuck with SAS 9.1 you don't have that nice little feature.

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