I use SAS EG 7.1. I have a one record table with 150 columns, creatively named fieldname1 - fieldname150. I would like to turn each field's value into a macro variables &fieldname1 - &fieldname150. I have written it out as
data _NULL_;
set mylib.proj_details;
call symputx('fieldname1',fieldname1,'l');
call symputx('fieldname2',fieldname2,'l');
call symputx('fieldname3',fieldname3,'l');
...
...
call symputx('fieldname149',fieldname149,'l');
call symputx('fieldname150',fieldname150,'l');
run;
There's got to be a sexier way to do this. I tried using a do loop but couldn't get the second argument (in which I was concatenating "fieldname" and my index variable) to be recognized. Any ideas? Thank you in advance!
You can use an array to shorten your code.
data _NULL_;
set mylib.proj_details;
array field(150) fieldname1-fieldname150;
do i=1 to 150;
call symputx(catt('fieldname', put(i, 3. -l)),field(i),'l');
end;
run;
You can use an array to shorten your code.
data _NULL_;
set mylib.proj_details;
array field(150) fieldname1-fieldname150;
do i=1 to 150;
call symputx(catt('fieldname', put(i, 3. -l)),field(i),'l');
end;
run;
Thanks! It's beautiful.
Perhaps use macro language to generate your statements:
%macro all150;
%local i;
%do i=1 %to 150;
call symputx("fieldname&i", fieldname&i, 'l');
%end;
run;
data _null_;
set mylib.proj_details;
%all150
run;
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