How to insert a macro variable in the middle of a name of a dataset

[mandan414]

Hello,

I have a series of dataset like ab2000c, ab2001c, ab2002c, ........ 

To do some analyses I made a macro variable like this:

%macro maxyear;

 %do  i = 2000 %to 2002;

proc freq data = ab&ic

......

but the above dataset doesn't work. I don't know how to insert the macro variable in the middle of  the dataset name.   

Thank you so much in advance for your help,

Mandana  

[PaigeMiller · Accepted solution]

You need a dot after the end of the macro variable name

ab&i.c

[Reeza]

Any reason why you can't combine the data sets and work with them together?

[mandan414]

Hi, I cannot combine the dataset because the records are slightly different between the datasets. .