While you have received a good suggestion, the context is wrong.   You should use &VALUE, not &VALUE&I:   %if &value in ........;   However, do NOT add parentheses around your existing list of values.  The corrected version would simply be:   %if &value in Hari RRR,John yy,Peter,Jai,Phano %then %put Value found within list.; ... View more

Hi , Thanks for your prompt response . Issue got fixed by placing comma between args1 and args2. call execute(cats('%nrstr(%SasDS(',args1,',',args2,'));')); ... View more