Call symput

[Babloo]

Could you please help me understand what will be the value of the macro variable 'brn' from the following code?

   data _null_ ;                                  
    call symput('brn'," and p2kbrn in ('1','2','3','4','5','6','8')") ;
   run ;                                                               

[Kurt_Bremser]

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@Babloo wrote:

Could you please help me understand what will be the value of the macro variable 'brn' from the following code?

   data _null_ ;                                  
    call symput('brn'," and p2kbrn in ('1','2','3','4','5','6','8')") ;
   run ;                                                               

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That is glaringly obvious, if you're not too lazy to take a few minutes to read the documentation.

[data_null__ · Accepted solution]

You just need a %PUT

117  data _null_ ;
118     call symput('brn'," and p2kbrn in ('1','2','3','4','5','6','8')") ;
119     run;

NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.00 seconds
      cpu time            0.00 seconds


120  %put NOTE: &=brn;
NOTE: BRN= and p2kbrn in ('1','2','3','4','5','6','8')

[Tom]

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@Babloo wrote:

Could you please help me understand what will be the value of the macro variable 'brn' from the following code?

   data _null_ ;                                  
    call symput('brn'," and p2kbrn in ('1','2','3','4','5','6','8')") ;
   run ;                                                               

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The value of the second argument to CALL SYMPUT.  So the characters inside the double quotes.

[ballardw]

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@Babloo wrote:

Could you please help me understand what will be the value of the macro variable 'brn' from the following code?

   data _null_ ;                                  
    call symput('brn'," and p2kbrn in ('1','2','3','4','5','6','8')") ;
   run ;                                                               

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Large economy sized hint: NO data set for variables => no other variables available.

Warning: &brn is likely to cause issues if passed as a macro parameter elsewhere.