SAS Macro Question-Please Help

[sasmaverick]

Below is the code I have been using for Geocoding in SAS. As you can see, I can read only a few variables from CDF_DEALER_OUT dataset by assigning them to a macro. If I am having, say 200-300 variables, I am in a problem. What can I do if I need to have all the fields from CDF_DEALER_OUT in the final dataset:  Geocodes_CDF. Greatly appreciate the help.

%macro  Geocd;
%do  i= 1   %to  &tot;
data _null_;
nrec= &i;
set CDF_DEALER_OUT point=nrec;
call symput('a1',translate(trim(address_old),'+',' '));
call symput('add',trim(address_old));
call symput('add1',trim("Street Address"n));
call symput('city',trim(city));
call symput('zip',trim("Post/Zip Code"n));
call symput('country',trim(Country));
stop;
run;

filename y url "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=&a1.%nrstr(&sensor=true)";

*Save the XML code to a file and create an XML Map;
filename  Googlexm 'C:\Nitish\Canada\Googlexml3.xml';

/*if it a poor match then google will either return status= no ok? or produce more than one match*/

data _null_;
infile y lrecl= 32000 pad;
input;
file Googlexm;
put _infile_;     *******XML code;
run;

*XML Map tells the XML engine how to map XML markup to a SAS dataset;
filename  SXLEMAP 'C:\Nitish\Canada\Googlexmlmap3.map'; 

*Use XML engine in LIBNAME statement to read the XML file;
libname Googlexm xml xmlmap=SXLEMAP access=READONLY;

data results;
length Address_Old $ 200 "Street Address"n $ 92 City $ 29 "Post/Zip Code"n 8 Country $ 20 URL $ 300;
Address_Old=symget( 'Add');
"Street Address"n=symget('Add1');
City=symget('City');
"Post/Zip Code"n=symget('Zip');
Country=symget('Country');
URL="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=&a1.%nrstr(&sensor=true)";
set  Googlexm.result(rename=(Formatted_Address=Address_Cleaned));
run;

*Dataset to hold all geocoded lat and lng;
data Geocodes_CDF;
set  Geocodes_CDF results;

run;

data _null_ ;
time_wait=sleep(2) ;   ******Sleep 2 seconds;
run;
%end;
%mend  Geocd;
%Geocd;

[Tom]

Perhaps I am missing the forest for the trees here but it looks like you are copying values from the data set CDF_DEALER_OUT to the data set RESULT through macro variables.

Why not just use data step code to do that?

data results ;

if _n_=1 then set CDF_DEALER_OUT (firstobs=&i);

....

run;

[sasmaverick]

Thanks for the help Tom. Your logic did help.