year and today function

[SASdevAnneMarie]

Hello Experts,

I would like to get the year 2020 in macro varaible "annee" but my code doesn't work:

%let annee=%sysevalf(year(%sysevalf(today()));

Thank you for your help!

Best regards

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

%SYSEVALF is for doing non-integer calculations in macro.

To call data step functions in macro language, you need %SYSFUNC.

[SASdevAnneMarie]

Thank you Kurt,

What do you mean when you say "non-integer"?

[Kurt_Bremser]

Compare the documentation of %EVAL and %SYSEVALF 

[Ksharp]

%let annee=%sysfunc(today(),year4.);
%put annee=&annee ;

[Venky3110]

Try this code:-

/*method1*/
data _null_;
call symputx('annee',put(intnx('year',today(),0),year4.));
run;

%put &annee;

/*method2*/
%let annee=%sysfunc(today(),year4.);
%put &annee;

[Venky3110]

/*method1*/
data _null_;
call symputx('annee',put(intnx('year',today(),0),year4.));
run;

%put &annee;

/*method2*/
%let annee=%sysfunc(today(),year4.);
%put &annee;