Need macro to resolve to macro name

[BenHere]

Hey does anyone know how to resolve &Key to &animal (or animal) and not platypus and not key?

12   %let animal = platypus;

13   %let key = &animal.;

14

15   %put %str(&key.);

platypus

16   %put %nrstr(&key.);

&key.

[Tom]

Not sure what you mean.

If you want &KEY to resolve to animal then set it to animal.

%let key=animal ;

If you want include macro trigger in the value then quote the trigger.  Your attempt with %STR(&animal) is quoting the result of the macro variable expansion.

%let key=%str(&)animal ;

[RW9]

The question from me would be why? 

[Ksharp · Accepted solution]

%let animal = platypus;

%let key = %nrstr(&animal.);

%put &key;

[BenHere]

Ahhh thank you Xia.   This will work for what we need.

Inheriting large complicated programs is not much fun. 

To all, thank you for responding.