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Ujjawal
Quartz | Level 8

I want to pass a macro variable in a file path.

ODS HTML FILE ="C:/User/" || &macrovariable || ".html";

Everything is same except filename. I have tried concatenating the remaining portion of the path with macro varible. But it seems not be working.

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ballardw
Super User

Try

ODS HTML FILE ="C:/User/&macrovariable..html"; /* the first . is to tell the macro processor that you want to append some text and is needed to add the . into the name.

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ballardw
Super User

Try

ODS HTML FILE ="C:/User/&macrovariable..html"; /* the first . is to tell the macro processor that you want to append some text and is needed to add the . into the name.

SteveED
SAS Employee

I think @ballardw got this correct. I'd probably add in a %trim to ensure no trailing blanks given that its a file name that's being created.

 

So I'd use:

ODS HTML FILE ="C:/User/%trim(&macrovariable).html";

 

nice solution @ballardw!

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