Hey guys.
I have a created a program that is going to grab data from one excel spreadsheet and chuck it into another one weekly. It is going to import the data into a specific named range for that week.
My question - Is there any code that I can use that changings the name in my code to the date 7 days ago?
For example, this is part of my current code -
libname xls excel 'H:\TEST.xlsm';
proc datasets lib = xls nolist ;
delete Q20160210 ;
quit ;
data xls.Q20160210 ;
set THISMONTH ;
run ;
libname xls clear;
Is there any way to get the progame to automatically change Q(Date) to Q(Todays Date - 7)?
Hopefully this makes sense and thanks in advance.
Josh
Welcome to the world of macro variables.
Create a macro variable that is 7 days from today. Replace the portion of your code that is the date with the macro variable reference, in this case: &cdate_7.
I like to use a data _null_ step to create my macro variables as it's more intuitive. You could do it with just a single %let statement. There's a lot of code an examples online, once you know what to search for.
data _null_;
cdate=today();
cdate_7 = today()-7;
call symputx('cdate_7', put(cdate_7, yymmddn8.));
run;
%put &cdate_7.;
And then modify your code accordingly.
proc datasets lib = xls nolist ;
delete Q&cdate_7. ;
quit ;
data xls.Q&cdate_7.;
set THISMONTH ;
run ;
Good Luck!
Welcome to the world of macro variables.
Create a macro variable that is 7 days from today. Replace the portion of your code that is the date with the macro variable reference, in this case: &cdate_7.
I like to use a data _null_ step to create my macro variables as it's more intuitive. You could do it with just a single %let statement. There's a lot of code an examples online, once you know what to search for.
data _null_;
cdate=today();
cdate_7 = today()-7;
call symputx('cdate_7', put(cdate_7, yymmddn8.));
run;
%put &cdate_7.;
And then modify your code accordingly.
proc datasets lib = xls nolist ;
delete Q&cdate_7. ;
quit ;
data xls.Q&cdate_7.;
set THISMONTH ;
run ;
Good Luck!
Worked perfectly! Thanks heaps! You have freed up my Monday's haha!
%let q=%sysfunc(intnx(day,%sysfunc(today()),-7),yymmddn8.);
%put &q ;
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