Hi Everyone,
I have a SAS Macro that looks like this:
%LET SUBGRP=('202')
and I'm using it in a proc SQL statement:
cm.subgrp in @SUBGRP
This works, but what if I want to allow the user of the program to select all subgroups? Sometimes they will need to do that. How would I adjust my macro?
I tried:
%LET SUBGRP=('*')
and
%LET SUBGRP=('%')
..and both of those didn't work. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Tom
Not really possible in PROC SQL to use both the IN operator and some type of wildcard.
If you are actually inside of a macro so that you can use macro logic then you could conditionally generate different SQL based on the value of your macro variable. For example if you decide to use %let subgrp=*; to mean select all then you could code it like this:
...
where
%if "&subgrp" = "*" then 1 ;
%else cm.subgrp in &subgrp ;
...
Otherwise you could place the whole conditional into the macro variable.
%let subgrp=1;
or
%let subgrp=cm.subgrp in ('22','33');
...
where &subgrp
...
Not really possible in PROC SQL to use both the IN operator and some type of wildcard.
If you are actually inside of a macro so that you can use macro logic then you could conditionally generate different SQL based on the value of your macro variable. For example if you decide to use %let subgrp=*; to mean select all then you could code it like this:
...
where
%if "&subgrp" = "*" then 1 ;
%else cm.subgrp in &subgrp ;
...
Otherwise you could place the whole conditional into the macro variable.
%let subgrp=1;
or
%let subgrp=cm.subgrp in ('22','33');
...
where &subgrp
...
Thanks for your help Tom! I'll use your suggestions and see if I can work around the problem...
You could also update the proc SQL with something like this:
%LET SUBGRP = ;
Proc sql;
....
%IF &SUBGRP ne %str() %THEN %DO;
where cm.subgrp in @SUBGRP
...
%END; %ELSE %DO;
....
%END;
...;
quit;
This would check whether a value was assigned to your macro and, in such a case, add the where condition to your sql query.
Regards,
Florent
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