Hi,
Yesterday, I was programming on macro and I realized that in a macro evaluation 10 is not equal than 1e1, but in a data step it says that they are equal.
%put %eval(10=1e1);
0
data test;
if 10=1e1 then put "1";
run;
1
Why happen this?
You need "%sysevalf()". Run the following
data _null_;
var= 10=1e1;
put var=;
run;
%put eval: %eval(10=1e1);
%put sysevalf: %sysevalf(10=1e1);
You need "%sysevalf()". Run the following
data _null_;
var= 10=1e1;
put var=;
run;
%put eval: %eval(10=1e1);
%put sysevalf: %sysevalf(10=1e1);
The macro processor is a pure text engine, so you need to see all comparisons as character comparisons, unless you override that behaviour, as Patrick already pointed out.
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