Is there a function/routine in SAS to translate a list of unquoted inputs into an element wise quoted list. A crude example is shown below.
%let t1 = 20105 38163 5947127 10292;
%let t2 = %sysfunc(function(&t1.));
%put t2=&t2.;
t2="20105" "38163" "5947127" "10292"
This list is being input as a parameter to a macro, so I'm hoping to do this step as a input cleanse for use in a where/in statement on a character variable.
Thanks.
How about this?
%let t1 = 20105 38163 5947127 10292;
%let t2 = "%sysfunc(tranwrd(&t1., %str( ), %str(" ")))";
%put &=t2.;
How about this?
%let t1 = 20105 38163 5947127 10292;
%let t2 = "%sysfunc(tranwrd(&t1., %str( ), %str(" ")))";
%put &=t2.;
I would not have know the quotes around the %sysfunc() would remain. Excellent. Thank you.
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