problem in looping macro in sas programming

[meres]

hay, i have some problem. i want to looping all macro, and expected output is i have 3 dataset output from proc freq (test_education ; test_residence and test_monthly_income)

but my code works for the last variable in macro %LET (monthly_income)..

is it possible to me if i want to automatically create 3 dataset in row.. how is it possible? is my sas code is wrong?

thanks

sorry for my bad english.. here i attach the code...

%macro infoid(data,xvar,yvar);

data _null_;

if 0 then set &data.;

array _x

&xvar;

array _y

&yvar;

call symput("nx", trim(left(put(dim(_x),12.))));

call symput("ny", trim(left(put(dim(_y),12.))));

length _mname _vname $20;

do _i=1 to dim(_x);

_mname='x'||trim(left(put(_i,12.)));

call execute('%global '||_mname);

call vname(_x[_i],_vname);

call symput(_mname,trim(_vname));

end;

do _i=1 to dim(_y);

_mname='y'||trim(left(put(_i,12.)));

call execute('%global '||_mname);

call vname(_y[_i],_vname);

call symput(_mname,trim(_vname));

end;

stop;

proc sort data=&data.(keep= &&x&nx gbi ) out=test_&&x&x;

by &&x&nx;

run;

%mend;

%let xvar = education_level residence monthly_income ;

%infoid(&xvar,gbi);

[LinusH]

I'm confused, you have three parameters in the macro definition, but you only seem to use two of them, and I guess that your &xvar will be received as &data - is that what you want?

[Tom]

There is no actual macro loop coded in that macro.

It looks like you want to put the PROC SORT step inside of a %DO loop.

[Amir]

Hi,

If I've understood your macro function definition it processes one data set only, so maybe you could call your macro 3 times, each time supplying the different data set name.

To automatically loop through a space-separated list of data set names then you could use something like the following, based on code supplied by @Tom:

%macro infoid_loop(datalist);

  %local i date ;

  %do i=1 %to %sysfunc(countw(&datalist,%str( )));

    %let dataset=%scan(&datalist,&i,%str( ));

    %infoid(&dataset,arg2,arg3);

  %end;

%mend infoid_loop;

Then invoke it:

%infoid_loop(set_a set b set_c,arg2,arg3);

One thing I noticed is that your macro function definition allows 3 parameters to be passed to it:

%macro infoid(data,xvar,yvar);

but you are only calling it with 2 parameters:

%infoid(&xvar,gbi);

If you are still having problems then please post the log with any error messages showing.

Regards,

Amir.