Concatenate Single Quote with text of a Macro Variable

[MKhandelwal]

Hi,

I have a macro variable dep_var as

[pre] %let dep_var=yld syld myld; [/pre]
I want a new macro variable as say
[pre]new_dep='yld syld myld' [/pre]
i.e I want to cocatenate the text of my macro variable dep_var with single quotes.

Thanks.

[data_null__]

%str(%') is needed. You may need to unquote the value, now or later.

[pre]
927 %let dep_var=yld syld myld;
928 %let new_var1=%str(%')&dep_var.%str(%');
929 %let new_var2=%unquote(%str(%')&dep_var.%str(%'));
930
931 %put _user_;
GLOBAL NEW_VAR2 'yld syld myld'
GLOBAL NEW_VAR1
yld syld myld

GLOBAL DEP_VAR yld syld myld
[/pre]

[russt_sas · Accepted solution]

There are 2 ways to accomplish this task.

%let dep_var=yld syld myld;

Method 1:

%let new_var2=%unquote(%str(%'&dep_var%'));

Method 2 (If running SAS 9.4 or greater):

%let new_var3=%tslit(&dep_var);