quote string

[SAS_inquisitive]

Hello,

I wonder why this does not add double quotes to name string.

data _null_;
  set sashelp.class;
  put name;
run;

data _null_;
  set sashelp.class;
  put "||name||";
run;

[mkeintz · Accepted solution]

You surround the expression

  || name ||

by quotes, which means sas willl treat it as a literal to be written by your put statemet.

Try

 put name $quote10. ;

which applies the $quote format  to name. Since name is 8  bytes, I  use 10 as the size attribute of the $quote format.

Mark

[SAS_inquisitive]

@mkeintz Thank you. I was asking this question in reference to use of variable in CALL EXECUTE routine. In example below, memname is not treated as literal.

data _null_;
	set _dsets_;
	call execute
		(
		'proc print data=sugi30.' ||
		trim(memname) ||
		'(obs=50); title ''First 50 observations of data set ' ||
		trim(memname) || '''; run;'
			);
run;

[mkeintz]

If you're trying to put quotes around the memname when it appears in the title, then use the put function, with $quote as 2nd argument, in the place where the variable memname appears in the title statement:

data _null_;

  set _dsets_;

  call execute

               (

       'proc print data=sugi30.' ||

                trim(memname) ||

       '(obs=50); title ''First 50 observations of data set ' ||

       put(memname,$quote10.) || '''; run;'

              ) ;

run;