Substituting text in a DOSUBL argument

[rogerjdeangelis]

Substituting text in a DOSUBL argument

as a side note- SAS please add the 8pt sasfont, would improve postings. Too much space between lines.

Thanks to Quentin McMullen on SAS-L

https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SAS-L;39b80cb6.1702b

Using DOSUBL to Append datasets

HAVE (Two datasets SASHELP.CLASSFIT and SASHELP.CLASS)

Up to 40 obs from SASHELP.CLASSFIT total obs=19

Obs    NAME        SEX  AGE HEIGHT WEIGHT   PREDICT ...

  1    Joyce        F    11   51.3   50.5    56.99
  2    Louise       F    12   56.3     77    76.48
...
 19    Philip       M    16     72    150    137.7


Up to 40 obs from SASHELP.CLASS total obs=19

Obs    NAME        SEX  AGE HEIGHT WEIGHT

  1    Joyce        F    11   51.3   50.5
  2    Louise       F    12   56.3     77
...
 19    Philip       M    16     72    150

WANT
===

Up to 40 obs from WANT total obs=38

Obs    NAME        SEX  AGE HEIGHT WEIGHT   PREDICT ...

  1    Joyce        F    11   51.3   50.5    56.99
  2    Louise       F    12   56.3     77    76.48

 37    Thomas       M    11   51.3   50.5      .
 38    William      M    12   56.3     77      .

WORKING CODE
============

    rc = dosubl("
       proc datasets library = work nolist;
         append base = want data = "||ds||" force;

FULL SOLUTION
============

data _null_;
  do ds='sashelp.classfit','sashelp.class';
    rc = dosubl("
       proc datasets library = work nolist;
         append base = want data = "||ds||" force;
       quit;run;
    ");
  end;
run;quit;

[rogerjdeangelis]

Using DOSUBL to Append datasets

https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SAS-L;39b80cb6.1702b

Thanks to Quentin McMullen on SAS-L
and
espeecially Muthia Kachirayan for posting the question!!

[rogerjdeangelis]

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I am not sure of this answer, the scoping in DOSUBL is a mystery to me.

It is how SAS has decided to compile DOSUBL?

dosubl concatenates the two strings and and unknown ds variable

"proc datasets library = work nolist; append base = want data =  "
 ds
 " force quit;run;"

 The comipler gets the value of DS from the parent?
 This surprised me? I had been using call symputx.

 The reverse is not true, a new variable in the child is
 not available to the parent, but you can delare
 commom variable names using the variables address.


* this also works;

 %symdel ds;
 data _null_;
  do ds='sashelp.classfit','sashelp.class';
    call symputx('ds',ds);
    rc = dosubl("
       proc datasets library = work nolist;
         append base = want data = &ds force;
       quit;run;
       %symdel ds;
    ");
  end;
run;quit;