Proc Import delimiters using SAS Prompts

[simmwa]

I wish to use the below code to import txt files with one of the following delimiters : '09'x   '7E'x   '2C'x

This works fine if I use e.g. %let mydelim='09'x; directly in my code.

But I want to assign one of the delimiters using SAS Prompts and it wont work with hex values. 

Any suggestions?

proc import	
	datafile=&in_file. 
	out=outfile 
	dbms=dlm 
	replace; 
	delimiter=&mydelim.; 
run; 

[simmwa · Accepted solution]

Below seems to work with double quotes (not sure why single quotes fails) with the Prompt setting mydelim to either 09, 7E or 2C 

proc import	
	datafile=&in_file. 
	out=outfile 
	dbms=dlm 
	replace; 
	delimiter="&mydelim."x; 
run;

[SASKiwi]

Macro variables don't resolve inside single quotes, but do inside double quotes.