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.
Hi,
initialdt = &Load_Dt.;
change this to and try...
initialdt = "&Load_Dt"d;
Thanks,
Shiva
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