I am trying the following:
%let year ='2019';
%put &year;
data cars_&year.;
set sashelp.cars;
run;
I have tried &&year. and &year.
I would like my new dataset to be cars_2019
Removed the ' ' around 2019.
That fixed it.
As a general rule, you should not put quotes or double quotes around the value of a macro variable. There are some rare exceptions, but as you see, this is not one of them.
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