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Calcite | Level 5

I want to pass a parameter to a macro as follows:

%CreateCSVFile(&OutputDirectory || "FD_Summary.csv", 'InputDataset')

This throws an error. I know I can get around it by saying:

Data _Null_;
Informat OutputFile $200.;
OutputFile = &ExperienceOutput || "FD_Summary.csv";
Call Symput('OutputFile',OutputFile);
Run;

%CreateCSVFile(&OutputFile, 'FD_Summary', 1000);

I'd like to avoid the extra data step if I can though. Is this possible?

1 REPLY 1
Reeza
Super User

What about

%createscsvfile(&outputdirectory.FD_summary.csv, inputdataset)

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