Good Morning!,
I know this question might be silly but I am trying to achieve the following:
(1) I have a variable for instance: %let Var1 = A B C;
Then I want to pass it in a Dataset column such that
data want;
WantedColumn = &Var1;
run;
However, this does not work. I have tried several combinations with PUT and SCAN but havent found the good one.
How is it done ??
Thank you for your time !,
Then do
%let Var1 = A B C;
data want(drop=i);
do i=1 to countw("&Var1");
WantedColumn=scan("&Var1", i);
output;
end;
run;
Put quotes around your macro variable
%let Var1 = A B C;
data want;
WantedColumn = "&Var1";
run;
This outputs me everything in one place but i want :
WantedColumn
A
B
C
NOT
Wanted Column
A B C
Then do
%let Var1 = A B C;
data want(drop=i);
do i=1 to countw("&Var1");
WantedColumn=scan("&Var1", i);
output;
end;
run;
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