I have a SAS dataset that I need to send to a company, but they are asking for every single record to be surrounded in double-quotes;   i.e. A dataset looking like:   name,state,date John Smith,NY,2018-07-05 Eli Manning,NJ,2018-07-05 Mookie Betts,MA,2018-07-05 Phil Parker,TX,2018-07-05   ...needs to look like:   "John Smith","NY","2018-07-05" "Eli Manning","NJ","2018-07-05" "Mookie Betts","MA,"2018-07-05" "Phil Parker","TX","2018-07-05"   Is there an easy way to run the quote() function through every variable?  Thanks. ... View more

I'm trying to take a long list and concatenate it into a long string/list, that I can store in a macro variable.   For instance:   I'd like to turn a dataset with a set of phone numbers like:   ID  Phone 1   1234567890 2   4634069845 3   9438758375 4   2349853984 5   3459086098 6   6689476988 7   3030495986 8   3459495954   ...into a macro variable that looks like: '1234567890', '4634069845', '9438758375', '2349853984', '3459086098', '6689476988', '3030495986', '3459495954'   Say we'll call it &PhoneString, then I can later create a sql query that looks like:   select * from applications where phone in (&PhoneString).     Thanks! ... View more