Read over rows by loops only

[Kurt_Bremser]

The simplest way to automatically create a series of macro variables is this:

data _null_;
set sashelp.class;
call symputx(cats('mac_',_n_),name);
run;

You can also use a dataset variable as name of your macro variables:

data _null_;
set sashelp.class;
call symputx(name,weight);
run;