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Ani_Abby
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi. I have this piece of coding whereby I use Load_Dt which add using Prompt Manager with following info:

     Prompt type:                                     Date
     Method for populating prompt:             User enters value

     Number of values :                              Sing value

     Date type :                                        Day

     Options (which I choose) :               1) Requires a non-blank value               2) Use prompt value throughout project

%put &Load_Dt;

data _null_;
     initialdt = &Load_Dt.;

     call symput('initialdt',initialdt);
     call symput('initialdt_',initialdt_);
     call symput('DDMMYY',put(initialdt,DDMMYYN6.));
     call symput('YYYYMM',put(initialdt,YYMMN6.));
     call symput('YYYYQQ',put(initialdt,YYQ6.));
run;

%put &initialdt.;
%put &initialdt_.;
%put &DDMMYY.;
%put &YYYYMM.;
%put &YYYYQQ.;

Here is the log I got after running the program.

19         %put &Load_Dt;
31Aug2012
20         


21         data _null_;
22              initialdt = &Load_Dt.;
NOTE: Line generated by the macro variable "LOAD_DT".
22          31Aug2012
              _______
              22
ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: !, !!, &, *, **, +, -, /, , =, >, >=, AND, EQ, GE, GT, IN, 
              LE, LT, MAX, MIN, NE, NG, NL, NOTIN, OR, ^=, |, ||, ~=.  
23
34              call symput('initialdt',initialdt);
25              call symput('initialdt_',initialdt_);
26              call symput('DDMMYY',put(initialdt,DDMMYYN6.));
27              call symput('YYYYMM',put(initialdt,YYMMN6.));
28              call symput('YYYYQQ',put(initialdt,YYQ6.));
29         run;

30         
31         %put &initialdt.;
put(31Aug2012,DDMMYY10.)
32         %put &initialdt_.;
.
33         %put &DDMMYY.;
.
34         %put &YYYYMM.;
.
35         %put &YYYYQQ.;
.

I don't which code goes wrong, is it date, macro or prompt. I really need big help on this. Usually I pre-code the date in as initialdt = '31AUG2012'd  which work perfectly but the user wants to choose their own date. Having the dataset that I need to choose name ended with &YYYYMM is not helping with the prompt.

Thank you so much.

1 REPLY 1
shivas
Pyrite | Level 9

Hi,

initialdt = &Load_Dt.;

change this to and try...

initialdt = "&Load_Dt"d;

Thanks,

Shiva

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