Date:         Sun, 27 Aug 2000 08:46:47 -0000
Reply-To:     Anna Henson <anna_henson@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Anna Henson <anna_henson@YAHOO.COM>
Organization: Aracnet Internet
Subject:      Please Help Me with SAS Macro!

Dear SAS users:

I am learning how to write macro, and this is my first one.  I am trying to
import these 7 files (allcli1.txt allcli2.txt ...allcli7.txt) then combine
into 1 SAS dataset called acs2000.cli_0800.  But it does not recognize my
macro vriable &I, which is the number from 1 to 7 in the data step.

My Codes:
%Let f_name=CLI_0800;

%MACRO IMPORTD (obsv);

  %DO I = 1 %to &obsv;
      DATA work.cli&I;
      INFILE  'C:\anna\July2000\allcli&I.txt' dsd truncover;
      LENGTH priceSt $4 logo $4 acctno $16;
      INPUT acscu pricestr $ prefixcd logo $ acctno $;
      RUN;
  %END;

%MEND IMPORTD;

%MACRO combined (set1,set2,set3,set4,set5,set6,set7 );
   DATA acs2000.&f_name (index=(actionid acscu));
   SET cli&set1 cli&set2 cli&set3 cli&set4 cli&set5 cli&set6 cli&set7;
   RUN;
%MEND combined ;

%importD (7);
%combined (1,2,3,4,5,6,7);
-------------------------
ERRORS:
6056  %Let f_name=CLI_0800;
6057
6058  %MACRO IMPORTD (obsv);
6059
6060    %DO I = 1 %to &obsv;
6061        DATA work.cli&I;
6062        INFILE  'C:\anna\July2000\allcli&I.txt' dsd truncover;
6063        LENGTH priceSt $4 logo $4 acctno $16;
6064        INPUT acscu pricestr $ prefixcd logo $ acctno $;
6065        RUN;
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I really appreciate your helps.

Anna Henson