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AlexeyS
Pyrite | Level 9

%let city = New Orleans;

title "Data for &city";

 

Why when i run these two statements, i still get "Data for &city" and not "Data for New Orleans" ?

thank you

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

You need to provide some information, I can tell nothing from that, and:

%let city = New Orleans;

title "Data for &city";

proc print data=sashelp.cars;
run;

Works fine for me.

Astounding
PROC Star

That would happen if you actually used a slightly different set of statements:

 

%let city = New Orleans;

title 'Data for &city';

 

Single quotes need to be changed to double quotes, to permit macro variable values to resolve.

 

If that's not what happened, you'll need to post the log (including the step before these statements).  There are other, less likely, possibilities.

emrancaan
Obsidian | Level 7
Proc print;
%let city = New Orleans;

title "Data for" &city;
Run;
Shmuel
Garnet | Level 18

Move %LET staement before thr PROC PRINT line and move the &city inside the double quotes.

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