Call symput

[HeatherNewton]

Data _null_;
Job_date=today();
Format job_date date9.;
Run;

%let sampdate=&g_job_date;
Call symput(”g_job_date”, put(job_date, date9.));


It says call symput statement is used out of order and why?

[ballardw]

Call symput is expected to be in a data step. Your example has it after the end of the shown data step. Run statement ends a data step.

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@HeatherNewton wrote:
Data _null_;
Job_date=today();
Format job_date date9.;
Run;

%let sampdate=&g_job_date;
Call symput(”g_job_date”, put(job_date, date9.));


It says call symput statement is used out of order and why?

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[Rick_SAS]

Try this instead:

Data _null_;
Job_date=today();
Format job_date date9.;
Call symput("g_job_date", put(job_date, date9.));
Run;

%put &=g_job_date;

[Quentin]

As an alternative, you can use the macro language %SYSFUNC function to call TODAY() to get the date, without using a data step:

3    %let g_job_date=%sysfunc(today(),date9) ;
4    %put &=g_job_date ;
G_JOB_DATE=18JAN2023