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Mirisage
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi Forum,

Could you please help me to figure out what is the wrong with my macro code below?

%macro one (product);

proc sort data= a.unified_dataset_&product out= A_&product_sorted;

   by bank_number account_number current_date;

run;

%mend one;

%one (product=PL);

%one (product=OD);

%one (product=MTG);

When I ran the above, following error message comes.

SYMBOLGEN:  Macro variable PRODUCT resolves to PL

WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference PRODUCT_SORTED not resolved.

NOTE 137-205: Line generated by the invoked macro "ONE".

21           proc sort data= a.unified_dataset_&product out= A_&product_sorted;    by bank_number account_number current_date; run;

                                                               _

                                                               22

ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: ;, (, ASCII, BUFFNO, DANISH, DATA, DATECOPY, DETAILS, DIAG, DUPOUT,

              EBCDIC, EQUALS, FINNISH, FORCE, IN, ISA, L, LEAVE, LIST, MESSAGE, MSG, NATIONAL, NODUP, NODUPKEY, NODUPKEYS,

              NODUPLICATE, NODUPLICATES, NODUPREC, NODUPRECS, NODUPS, NOEQUALS, NORWEGIAN, NOTHREADS, OSA, OUT, OVERWRITE,

              PAGESIZE, PRESORTED, PSIZE, REVERSE, SIZE, SORTSEQ, SORTSIZE, SORTWKNO, SWEDISH, T, TAGSORT, TECH, TECHNIQUE,

              TESTHSI, THREADS, WKNO, WORKNO. 

thanks

Mirisage

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Reeza
Super User


out= A_&product_sorted;


SYMBOLGEN:  Macro variable PRODUCT resolves to PL

WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference PRODUCT_SORTED not resolved.




You've embedded the macro variable in the middle of text, so SAS doesn't know where the macro variable ends. It thinks that the macro variable is &product_sorted.

You can specify the end of a macro variable with a period.


out= A_&product._sorted;

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Reeza
Super User


out= A_&product_sorted;


SYMBOLGEN:  Macro variable PRODUCT resolves to PL

WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference PRODUCT_SORTED not resolved.




You've embedded the macro variable in the middle of text, so SAS doesn't know where the macro variable ends. It thinks that the macro variable is &product_sorted.

You can specify the end of a macro variable with a period.


out= A_&product._sorted;

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