Hello ,
May you help me to check how I should correct the following Macro statements? &med cannot provide me the correct value. 😞
%let medlist = %str("cisplatin" ; "carboplatin"; "paclitaxel" ; "paclitaxel protein-bound" ; "pemetrexed disodium" );
%let med = %scan(&medlist, 4, ";") ;
%put &medlist &med ;
Thank you,
Ivy
Hi.
Remove the " around ;
%let med = %scan(&medlist, 4, ;) ;
The third argument of the SCAN function is a list of characters considered to be separators, any of them will be identified as a separator.
If you want to remove the quotes around the item use dequote function, like this:
%let med = %sysfunc(dequote(%scan(&medlist, 4, ;))) ;
More on the SCAN function here: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000214639.htm
Hope it helps.
Daniel Santos @ www.cgd.pt
Hi.
Remove the " around ;
%let med = %scan(&medlist, 4, ;) ;
The third argument of the SCAN function is a list of characters considered to be separators, any of them will be identified as a separator.
If you want to remove the quotes around the item use dequote function, like this:
%let med = %sysfunc(dequote(%scan(&medlist, 4, ;))) ;
More on the SCAN function here: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000214639.htm
Hope it helps.
Daniel Santos @ www.cgd.pt
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