I am trying to create a sequence number to be placed at the end of a file name for a proc export.
Work.seq_nbr will contain the number I want to start with and then the datastep increment will increment that number by one and put a leading zero before it. If the seq_nbr starts off at say 270 then I want 0271 to be &seq_nbr_pad in my proc export.
I just can't figure out how to make it a macro variable in my datastep or I need help in finding a way to do this.
data increment(keep=seq_nbr_pad);
length seq_nbr_txt $ 4 seq_nbr_pad $ 4;
set work.seq_nbr;
/* read charvar as number, then format with leading zeroes */
/* then put result into padded */
seq_nbr = seq_nbr+1;
seq_nbr_txt = put(seq_nbr,4.);
seq_nbr_pad = put(input(seq_nbr_txt,best4.),z4.);
%let seq_nbr=seq_nbr_pad;
run;
PROC EXPORT
DATA=increment
OUTFILE="\\Home1\userid\GMF_&SEQ_NBR_PAD..csv"
DBMS=CSV REPLACE;
RUN;
%LET can't be part of a DATA step. Here's an alternative method to create your macro variable:
data _null_;
set work.seq_nbr (keep=seq_nbr);
call symput('seq_nbr_pad', put(seq_nbr+1, z4.));
run;
%LET can't be part of a DATA step. Here's an alternative method to create your macro variable:
data _null_;
set work.seq_nbr (keep=seq_nbr);
call symput('seq_nbr_pad', put(seq_nbr+1, z4.));
run;
Works perfectly. Thank you so much.
Are you actually going to export the exact same data set to multiple files? Unless you change your Increment data set that will be the likely effect.
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