Using macro variable in %Let

[CP2]

Why doesn't this work ? It assigns the path with &diag as the string value and not the value of &diag. Is there a work-around ?

%Let diag=ovarian ;
%Let path=Z:\Analysis\&diag ;

[SuryaKiran · Accepted solution]

%Let diag=ovarian ;

%Let path=%str(Z:\Analysis\&diag) ;

FYI

http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/152-2007.pdf

[SASKiwi]

Works fine for me:

23 %Let diag=ovarian ;
24 %Let path=Z:\Analysis\&diag ;
25
26 %put &path;
Z:\Analysis\ovarian

Please post your log.

[Tim_SAS]

Works for me:

[SuryaKiran]

Make sure you run %Let diag=ovarian ;

If you run only %Let path=Z:\Analysis\&diag ;
it will not resolve the macro variable.