want to disply all values

[paddyb]

i want to display all values in macro.its taking only 1st value

proc sql;
select mem ,name into:ds,:var  from dictionary.columns
where libname="RAW" and (name like '%AT' ') ;
quit;
proc sql;
select count(name)into:N from demo;
quit;


%macro loop(N,ds,var);
 %do i= 1 %to &N;
  %put "&ds" -"&var";
 

%end;

%mend;

[nehalsanghvi]

It's hard to provide a solution without any input data to work with or desired output data to look at. Can you send that along with the code?

You have specified only one macro variable per column you are selecting. So the query takes the values from the two columns from the first row only and puts them in those two macro variables.

Are you trying to print all column names from a dataset in one long string? Like this: ds1 has var1, var2, var3

Or do you want to print something like this in the log?

ds1 has var1

ds1 has var2

ds1 has var3

Here's a solution for the second option above:

proc sql;
select count(*) into :rowcount trimmed
from dictionary.columns
where libname="RAW"
and (name like '%AT') ;
quit;

proc sql;
select mem,name into :ds1-:ds&rowcount., :var1-:var&rowcount.
from dictionary.columns
where libname="RAW"
and (name like '%AT') ;
quit;

%macro loop;
 %do i= 1 %to &rowcount.;
  %put "&&ds&i" have "&&var&i";
%end;
%mend;

%loop;

[paddyb]

yes something similar.it worked.Thanks you

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

proc sql;
select memname into:ds separated by " " from dictionary.columns
where libname="RAW" and (name like '%AT');
select name into:var separated by " " from dictionary.columns
where libname="RAW" and (name like '%AT');
quit;

%macro loop;
%do i = 1 %to %sysfunc(countw(&ds));
  %put %scan(&ds,&i) -%scan(&var,&i);
%end;
%mend;
%loop

[rogerjdeangelis]

I have not paid much attention to this post so maybe I am off base, but this seems to work

* create some data;
libname sd1 "d:/sd1";
data sd1.xat(keep=sat rat bat) sd1.zat(keep= hat fat);
  retain sat rat bat hat fat 0;
run;quit;

proc sql;
  select
     catx('-',memname,name)
  into
    :libnam separated by " "
  from
    dictionary.columns
  where
         libname="SD1"
     and (name like '%AT')
;quit;

 XAT-SAT
 XAT-RAT
 XAT-BAT
 ZAT-HAT
 ZAT-FAT