Macro functions

[robertrao]

HI Team,

could you explain why there has to be braces after date function!!

title "%sysfunc(date(),word date.) absence report"

Thanks

[Reeza]

To differentiate it from a variable called date.

date() is a function that returns todays date, just a function that doesn't require any parameters, so nothing inside the brackets.

data test;

a=date();

date='01Jan2012'd;

run;

[robertrao]

Hi,

Thanks so very much for the example.

Regards

[robertrao]

Hi,

I could not mark this answer as Right Answer. Some technical error.

Regards