When I tried to write a loop over some arguments countw gave me the answer that "where Gruppe=1!where Gruppe=2" consists of four words when using "!" as delimiter. Shouldn't it be 2?
I used countw as shown in the log below.
61 %macro test;
Looking at parentheses the ! is interpreted as a parameter for %sysfunc and not of countw. You're better of with
%sysfunc(countw(&Beds.,!));
Hope this helps,
- Jan
Looking at parentheses the ! is interpreted as a parameter for %sysfunc and not of countw. You're better of with
%sysfunc(countw(&Beds.,!));
Hope this helps,
- Jan
Your parentheses are in the wrong place. This works. I deleted other extra characters that you do not need.
%macro test;
%let a=%sysfunc(countw(where Gruppe=1!where Gruppe=2,!));
%put &a;
%mend;
%test
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