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tom12122
Obsidian | Level 7

I have data step with DO i=1 to 5 loop.

I need to reference macro variable & Ti  (&T1 for i=1, &T2 for i=2 etc.)

How to do that?

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Alpay
Fluorite | Level 6

You may use SYMGET to resolve the macro variable name at run time.

CATS() function will construct the name of the macro variable name as 'T1', 'T2', etc at run time.

SYMGET() function will get the value the macro variable produced by CATS() function (e.g., SYMGET('T1') when i=1).

Zafer

%let T1=A;

%let T2=B;

%let T3=C;

%let T4=D;

%let T5=E;

data _null_;

    do i=1 to 5;

        T = SYMGET(CATS('T',i));

        put i= T=;

    end;

run;

15     %let T1=A;
16     %let T2=B;
17     %let T3=C;
18     %let T4=D;
19     %let T5=E;
20   
21     data _null_;
22    do i=1 to 5;
23    T = SYMGET(CATS('T',i));
24    put i= T=;
25    end;
26     run;

i=1 T=A

i=2 T=B

i=3 T=C

i=4 T=D

i=5 T=E

Linlin
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

%let t1=a1;
%let t2=a2;
%let t3=a3;
%let t4=a4;
%let t5=a5;

data want;
do i=1 to 5;
id=symget(cats('t',i));
output;
end;
run;
proc print;run;

Linlin

Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

I am curious about why you would want a data step DO loop to reference a series of macro variables?

Wouldn't it be easier to restructure the code so that the macro variables are instead actual variables?  Then you could use an array reference.

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