Assign Output To Variable

[Phaneendra]

How do i assign the SINGLE output of an step to a variable inside a macro?

E.G: There is only one distinct value of a character variable in a dataset. I want to assign that Distinct Value to 't';

Please Help, How Can We Do It?

It's like i want:

%Let t = %Eval(Proc Sql; Select Distinct(XYZ) From Prq; Quit;)

[Ksharp · Accepted solution]

proc sql;
Select Distinct(XYZ) into : T
 From Prq;
Quit;

%put &T ;

[Astounding]

SQL will do that for you.  Include a separator, just in case there is more than one possible value for XYZ:

proc sql;

select distinct xyz into : t separated by ' ' from Prq;

quit;