This is probably pretty simple, but i want to add an underscore in front of a numeric variable.

[zscott1]

This is for macro automation purposes,  I want to use my first variable x, to create a macro for the 2nd variable var2 which I already have code for

data _null;

set boundvec;

call symputx(x,var2,'G');

run;

but of course I get an error because x is a number; how can I simply add underscores infront of my x variables?

obs  x     var2

1	1	521.25175485
2	2	855.9807884
3	3	1422.6889005
4	4	1929.7196005
5	5	2456.6264165
6	6	3641.1847645
7	7	4406.201729

[esjackso · Accepted solution]

Is this what you are looking for?:

call symputx( cats("_",x),var2,'G');

Hope this helps!

EJ

[zscott1]

Exactly