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Ronein
Onyx | Level 15

Hello

I want o get the list of months (in form YYMM) that exists between From_Date and today.

For example:

From_Date  is  14MAY2021

Today is           19JAN2022

I need to create a macro var that will contain the values: 2105+2106+2107+2108+2109+2110+2111+2112+2201 

 

%let From_Date='14MAY2021'd;
%let Today=Today();
/**Task: Need to create a new macro var called vector that will contain list of months in form YYMM between these 2 dates**/

 

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s_lassen
Meteorite | Level 14

You can do it with a macro, like this:

%macro monthlist(from_date,to_date=%sysfunc(today())); 
  %local month;                                        
  %do month=%sysfunc(putn(&from_date,yymmn4.)) %to     
            %sysfunc(putn(&to_date,yymmn4.));          
     %if %substr(&month,3)=13 %then                    
        %let month=%eval(&month+88);                   
     %do; &month%end;                                  
     %end;                                             
%mend;

%let vector=%monthlist(&from_date);

Or it can be done with a datastep:

data _null_;                               
  date=&from_date;                         
  length list $200;                        
  do while(date<=today());                 
    call catx(' ',list,put(date,yymmn4.)); 
    date=intnx('month',date,1);            
    end;                                   
  call symputx('vector',list);             
run;

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andreas_lds
Jade | Level 19

What have you tried?

I would start with a data step creating one observation for each value. Most likely that data set can be used in the subsequent steps, avoiding a list of values in a macro variable.

 

s_lassen
Meteorite | Level 14

You can do it with a macro, like this:

%macro monthlist(from_date,to_date=%sysfunc(today())); 
  %local month;                                        
  %do month=%sysfunc(putn(&from_date,yymmn4.)) %to     
            %sysfunc(putn(&to_date,yymmn4.));          
     %if %substr(&month,3)=13 %then                    
        %let month=%eval(&month+88);                   
     %do; &month%end;                                  
     %end;                                             
%mend;

%let vector=%monthlist(&from_date);

Or it can be done with a datastep:

data _null_;                               
  date=&from_date;                         
  length list $200;                        
  do while(date<=today());                 
    call catx(' ',list,put(date,yymmn4.)); 
    date=intnx('month',date,1);            
    end;                                   
  call symputx('vector',list);             
run;
Ksharp
Super User
%let From_Date='14MAY2021'd;
%let Today=Today();


data _null_;
length list $ 200;
do date=&From_Date to &Today ;
 if month(date) ne month then list=catx('+',list,put(date,yymmn4.));
 month=month(date);
end;
call symputx('list',list);
run;

%put &=list ;

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