Hello friends - this could be dumb question but can you please tell me how we can use dataset which look like this...
sales_20140819
sales_19aug2014
THESE DATASETS WILL KEEP CHANGIN DATE DATE SO TOMORROW WE WILL HAVE
sales_20140820
sales_20aug2014
so i want to use like this;
data test;
set anylibrary.sales_&sysdate;
run;
Please help - thanks!
set anylibrary.sales_%sysfunc(today(), yymmddn8.);
AND/OR
set anylibrary.sales_%sysfunc(today(), date9);
set anylibrary.sales_%sysfunc(today(), yymmddn8.);
AND/OR
set anylibrary.sales_%sysfunc(today(), date9);
thanks Reeza and SAS KIWI ...
I suggest you stick with the yyyymmdd style as your datasets will then naturally sort in date order either in SAS or Windows Explorer.
Also if you wish to use this on many datasets consider defining as a macro variable. If it is yesterday you want then try this:
%let Yesterday = %sysfunc(intnx(DAY,%sysfunc(today()), -1), yymmddn8.);
data example;
set anylibrary.sales_&Yesterday.;
run;
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