okay, i am trying to build a table of differing date function results. the part i am having issues with is building a variable YYYY-xQ. i need that value in QIDC and QIDP but the concatenating is not working and i do not understand why. it is asking me for a mathematical operator in building a cat function. i have used catx, catt, cats and || and it fails. here is the code...
proc sql;
create table DATES (
TYPE char(10) format=$10. informat=$10.,
DATE num format=MMDDYY8. informat=MMDDYY8.,
CHAR char(10) format=$10. informat=$10.,
NUM num format=6. informat=6.);
quit;
proc sql;
insert into DATES
set TYPE='YTRDC'
set TYPE='YTRDP'
set TYPE='QTRC'
set TYPE='QTRP'
set TYPE='YRC'
set TYPE='YRP'
set TYPE='QIDC'
set TYPE='QIDP'
set TYPE='QIDX'
set TYPE='QIDP';
quit;
proc sql;
update DATES
set
DATE=intnx('month',today(),-1)
where TYPE='YTRDC';
quit;
proc sql;
update DATES
set
DATE=intnx('month',today(),-4)
where TYPE='YTRDP';
quit;
proc sql;
update DATES
set
NUM=qtr(intnx('month',today(),-1))
where TYPE='QTRC';
quit;
proc sql;
update DATES
set
NUM=qtr(intnx('month',today(),-4))
where TYPE='QTRP';
quit;
proc sql;
select NUM
into :var1
from DATES
where TYPE='QTRC';
quit;
proc sql;
select NUM
into :var2
from DATES
where TYPE='QTRP';
quit;
proc sql;
update DATES
set
CHAR=cats('',&var1,'Q')
where TYPE='QTRC';
quit;
proc sql;
update DATES
set
CHAR=cats('',&var2,'Q')
where TYPE='QTRP';
quit;
proc sql;
update DATES
set
NUM=year(intnx('month',today(),-1))
where TYPE='YRC';
quit;
proc sql;
update DATES
set
NUM=year(intnx('month',today(),-4))
where TYPE='YRP';
quit;
proc sql;
update DATES
set
CHAR=put(year(intnx('month',today(),-1)),4.)
where TYPE='YRC';
quit;
proc sql;
update DATES
set
CHAR=put(year(intnx('month',today(),-4)),4.)
where TYPE='YRP';
quit;
proc sql;
select CHAR
into :var3
from DATES
where TYPE='QTRC';
quit;
proc sql;
select CHAR
into :var4
from DATES
where TYPE='YRC';
quit;
proc sql;
select CHAR
into :var5
from DATES
where TYPE='QTRP';
quit;
proc sql;
select CHAR
into :var6
from DATES
where TYPE='YRP';
quit;
proc sql;
update DATES
set
CHAR=&var3 || &var4
where TYPE='QIDC';
quit;
proc sql;
update DATES
set
CHAR=cats('',&var5,'_',&var6)
where TYPE='QIDP';
quit;it is probably something simple but i dont get and the error is not helping...
GOPTIONS ACCESSIBLE;
24 proc sql;
25 update DATES
26 set
27 CHAR=&var3 || &var4
NOTE: Line generated by the macro variable "VAR3".
27 4Q
_
22
ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: !!, *, **, +, -, /, WHERE, ||.
28 where TYPE='QIDC';
_____
22
76
ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: ;, !, !!, &, *, **, +, -, /, <, <=, <>, =, >, >=, ?, AND, BETWEEN,
CONTAINS, EQ, EQT, GE, GET, GT, GTT, IN, IS, LE, LET, LIKE, LT, LTT, NE, NET, NOT, NOTIN, OR, ^, ^=, |, ||, ~, ~=.
ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored.
NOTE: PROC SQL set option NOEXEC and will continue to check the syntax of statements.
29 quit;
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: PROCEDURE SQL used (Total process time):
real time 0.00 seconds
user cpu time 0.00 seconds
system cpu time 0.00 seconds
memory 40.59k
OS Memory 19872.00k
Timestamp 12/20/2018 10:56:26 AM
Step Count 153 Switch Count 68
Page Faults 7
Page Reclaims 21
Page Swaps 0
Voluntary Context Switches 217
2 The SAS System 08:12 Thursday, December 20, 2018
Involuntary Context Switches 0
Block Input Operations 64
Block Output Operations 8
30
31 proc sql;
32 update DATES
33 set
34 CHAR=cats('',&var5,'_',&var6)
NOTE: Line generated by the macro variable "VAR5".
34 3Q
_
22
ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: !, !!, &, *, **, +, ',', -, /, <, <=, <>, =, >, >=, ?, AND, CONTAINS,
EQ, EQT, GE, GET, GT, GTT, LE, LET, LIKE, LT, LTT, NE, NET, OR, ^=, |, ||, ~=.
35 where TYPE='QIDP';
NOTE: PROC SQL set option NOEXEC and will continue to check the syntax of statements.
36 quit;
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: PROCEDURE SQL used (Total process time):
