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schoi
Calcite | Level 5

I have a macro with multiple quotation marks.  For example, 

%let animal = 'cow', 'pig', 'chicken'

 

I want to use the macro animal in the WHERE clause in a proc sql pass-through query.  How do I do that?

I already tried bquote and str but it doesn't seem to work.

 

Thanks

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Astounding
PROC Star

You don't need any functions.  Anywhere in the program where this would be valid syntax:

 

'cow', 'pig', 'chicken'

 

just insert &ANIMAL at that point.

Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

Did you try it?  What problem did you have?

%let animal = 'cow', 'pig', 'chicken' ;
proc sql ;
 connect to oracle as mydb ..... ;
select * from connection to mydb
(select * from have
  where animal in (&animal)
);
quit;

 

schoi
Calcite | Level 5

Thanks everyone.  It actually works.  There was something wrong with my logic in my code that made me think it wasn't working.

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