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sleretrano
Quartz | Level 8

 

I want to use a macro variable in a WHERE condition in a PROC SQL, but I need to to be evaluated as a number because Var3 below is numeric.

 

%let horizon=201606:

PROC SQL;
CREATE TABLE CTX AS
SELECT Variables
FROM Table1 T1
LEFT JOIN Table2 T2 ON (T1.Var1=T2.Var1)
WHERE T2.Var3 le %EVAL(put(&Horizon.,6.));
QUIT;

 

 

 

How can I go about this?

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Reeza
Super User

Macro variables are text not really char/numeric. They do literal text replacement. 

 

The following will work:

 

Where t2.var3 LE &horizon;

If it doesn't work you may have a type mismatch and most likely var3 is numeric with a date format? 

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Reeza
Super User

Macro variables are text not really char/numeric. They do literal text replacement. 

 

The following will work:

 

Where t2.var3 LE &horizon;

If it doesn't work you may have a type mismatch and most likely var3 is numeric with a date format? 

sleretrano
Quartz | Level 8
It did work, thanks. I hadn't thought of trying the most simple thing.

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