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robertrao
Quartz | Level 8

Hi Team,

Recently I learnt that whenever we are refwerring to SAS functions in MAcros we have to use %sysfunc.

In this piece of code ISNT SCAN a SAS function? Don t we need to use %sysfunc before the SCAN.

%macro  dothis;

%let varnames= Apple ball cat orange;

ods pdf file='myfilename';

%do i=1 %to %sysfunc(countw(&varnames));

%let thisvar=%scan(&varnames,&i, &str());

Regards

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Linlin
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

you could if you want to:

%let varnames= Apple ball cat orange;

%let i=1 ;

%let thisvar=%sysfunc(scan(&varnames,&i));

%put &thisvar;

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Reeza
Super User

SCAN is a SAS function

%SCAN is a SAS MACRO

And not all functions work with sysfunc, read the documentation

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/mcrolref/61885/HTML/default/viewer.htm#z3514sysfunc.htm

Linlin
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

you could if you want to:

%let varnames= Apple ball cat orange;

%let i=1 ;

%let thisvar=%sysfunc(scan(&varnames,&i));

%put &thisvar;

robertrao
Quartz | Level 8

Yeah,

It works well. So %scan is an inbuilt MAcro function as Reeza was explaining?????

Thanks

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