How to get out of this WARNING(WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference E not resolved.)

[Siva_Harish]

Hi Commuters ,

data _null_;
call symput("test",'Events and T&E');
run;
%put &test.;

I tried using all macro quoting functions but no use .can help me to get out of this Warning?

log :

1552  data _null_;
1553  call symput("test",'Events and T&E');
1554  run;

NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.01 seconds
      cpu time            0.03 seconds


WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference E not resolved.
1555
1556  %put &test.;
Events and T&E

[Tom]

You need to quote the string with the & (and also %) in it.

Either add some macro quoting or add some real quotes.

data _null_;
  call symputX("test",'Events and T&E');
run;
%put &=test;
%let test=%superq(test);
%put &=test;

data _null_;
  call symputX("test",'''Events and T&E''');
run;
%put &=test;

401   data _null_;
402     call symputX("test",'Events and T&E');
403   run;

NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.03 seconds
      cpu time            0.01 seconds


WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference E not resolved.
404   %put &=test;
TEST=Events and T&E
405   %let test=%superq(test);
406   %put &=test;
TEST=Events and T&E
407
408   data _null_;
409     call symputX("test",'''Events and T&E''');
410   run;

NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.00 seconds
      cpu time            0.00 seconds


411   %put &=test;
TEST='Events and T&E'

[Ksharp · Accepted solution]

since your macro variable contains macro resolve symbole '&' ,if you want print it you need mask it firstly by macro mask function :




data _null_;
call symput("test",'Events and T&E');
run;
%put %superq(test);