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DanWALDO
Calcite | Level 5

I have a series of files that I wish to concatenate ... named file01, file02, file03 ... file12.

If I use the code

set

%do i=01 to 12;

file&i;

%end;

;

the files are named file1, file2, ... file12.

How can I force the macro to use the 2-digit (zero-filled) form of the counter?

Thanks!

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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

You can replace the value of I with a value with a leading zero inside the loop and it will not break the looping.  You can then use &I where you need it.

%macro test ;

%do i=1 %to 10 ;

  %let i=%sysfunc(putn(&i,Z2));

  %put i=&i ;

%end;

%mend ;

%test;

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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

You can replace the value of I with a value with a leading zero inside the loop and it will not break the looping.  You can then use &I where you need it.

%macro test ;

%do i=1 %to 10 ;

  %let i=%sysfunc(putn(&i,Z2));

  %put i=&i ;

%end;

%mend ;

%test;

DanWALDO
Calcite | Level 5

Thanks to both Jaap and Tom ... I'm in business!

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