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SAS_ACE
Obsidian | Level 7

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

 

 

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SAS_ACE
Obsidian | Level 7

Removed the '      '    around 2019.

 

That fixed it.  

 

 

 

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SAS_ACE
Obsidian | Level 7

Removed the '      '    around 2019.

 

That fixed it.  

 

 

 

PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

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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Paige Miller

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