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Ivy
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Quartz | Level 8

Hello ,

 

May you help me to check how I should correct the following Macro statements? &med cannot provide me the correct value. 😞 

 

%let medlist = %str("cisplatin" ; "carboplatin"; "paclitaxel" ; "paclitaxel protein-bound" ; "pemetrexed disodium" );


%let med = %scan(&medlist, 4, ";") ;


%put &medlist &med ;

 

Thank you,

Ivy

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Daniel-Santos
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi.

 

Remove the " around ;

  

%let med = %scan(&medlist, 4, ;) ;

 

The third argument of the SCAN function is a list of characters considered to be separators, any of them will be identified as a separator.

 

If you want to remove the quotes around the item use dequote function, like this:

 

%let med = %sysfunc(dequote(%scan(&medlist, 4, ;))) ;

 

More on the SCAN function here: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000214639.htm

 

Hope it helps.

 

Daniel Santos @ www.cgd.pt

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Daniel-Santos
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi.

 

Remove the " around ;

  

%let med = %scan(&medlist, 4, ;) ;

 

The third argument of the SCAN function is a list of characters considered to be separators, any of them will be identified as a separator.

 

If you want to remove the quotes around the item use dequote function, like this:

 

%let med = %sysfunc(dequote(%scan(&medlist, 4, ;))) ;

 

More on the SCAN function here: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000214639.htm

 

Hope it helps.

 

Daniel Santos @ www.cgd.pt

Ivy
Quartz | Level 8 Ivy
Quartz | Level 8
Thank you very much, that works !

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