Hi. I have a Put statement where I'm attempting to output a mix of strings and variable values. The value for Analysis_Desc, which is ACTUAL DELIVERY DATE MISSING IN IV, needs to be output in quotes, but I can't seem to get the syntax to output the value in quotes.
PUT "WHEN (" RULE ") AND a.RULE = . THEN " ANALYSIS_DESC;
I'd expect the Put output statement to look like this:
WHEN (A.ACTUAL_DLVRY_DATE IS NULL AND B.ACTUAL_DLVRY_DATE IS NOT NULL ) AND a.RULE = . THEN
"ACTUAL DELIVERY DATE MISSING IN IV"
PUT 'WHEN (' RULE ') AND a.RULE = . THEN "' ANALYSIS_DESC '"';
PUT 'WHEN (' RULE ') AND a.RULE = . THEN "' ANALYSIS_DESC '"';
Another approach :
str = cats"When (",Rule,") and a.rule= . then ",quote(ANALYSIS_DESC));
put str;
When using PUT statements you can also use FORMATS like $QUOTE.
PUT "WHEN (" RULE ") AND a.RULE = . THEN " ANALYSIS_DESC :$quote128.;
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