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Ronein
Onyx | Level 15

Hello

User define 2 macro variables

%let minYYMM=2007;

%let maxYYMM=2106;

 

I want to create another macro variable called List that will get YYMM  values between &minYYMM and &maxYYMM.

So in this case the desired value of the new macro variable  is  2007+2008+2009+2010+2011+2012+2101+2102+2103+2104+2105+2106

 

 

Thanks

 

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Use a DO loop with INTNX:

data _null_;
length vector $32767;
start = input("20&minyymm.01",yymmdd10.);
do while (start le input("20&maxyymm.01",yymmdd8.));
  vector=catx("+",vector,substr(put(start,yymmddn8.),3,4));
  start = intnx('month',start,1);
end;
call symputx("vector",vector);
run;

This loop can be used to directly create repeated code with CALL EXECUTE or similar.

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