| Date: | Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:48:59 -0500 |
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| Reply-To: | "Fehd, Ronald J." <rjf2@CDC.GOV> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | "Fehd, Ronald J." <rjf2@CDC.GOV> |
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| Subject: | Re: Macro Problem |
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> From: Pitruzzello, Anthony [mailto:apitruzzello@CPS.K12.IL.US]
> I'm hoping someone can help me with a macro problem. Working with
> educational data sets, I usually prefer to read in a school
> unit number or a
> subject code as a numeric. On certain, occasions, however, I need to
> concatenate UNIT and SUBJ to create a new sort variable.
> Rather than read
> them in twice, I use a little macro:
>
> %LET UNITC=PUT(UNIT,4.);
> %LET SUBJC=PUT(SUBJ,4.);
> %MACRO KEYY1; LENGTH KEY1 $8; KEY1=&UNITC||&SUBJC;%MEND KEYY1;
>
> Most of the time it works fine. But sometimes it doesn't.
> Example, from a
> SAS log:
> 101 DATA F5; SET F4; &UNITC &SUBJC %KEYY1
> NOTE: Line generated by the macro variable "UNITC".
> 101 PUT(UNIT,4.)
> _
> 22
> 76
>
> ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: a name,
> arrayname, ), -, :, Ý, _ALL_, _CHARACTER_, _CHAR_, _NUMERIC_,
read the log:
DATA F5; SET F4; PUT(UNIT,4.);
what's wrong with that paragraph? ... ?!
how about this:
DATA F5; SET F4; UnitC =&UNITC.; SubjC=&SUBJC.; %KEYY1
I would recommend that you use the the format z4. for the
numeric-to-character conversion.
Ron Fehd the macro maven CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2@cdc.gov
OpSys: Win_Pro Ver: 8.2
---> cheerful provider of UNTESTED SAS code from the Clue?Gee!Wrx !*! <---
> If, instead of the macro, I just write out the code, e.g.-
> DATA F4; MERGE F2(IN=X) S; BY UNIT; IF X;
> UNITC=PUT(UNIT,4.);
> SUBJC=PUT(SUBJ,4.);
> LENGTH KEY1 $8; KEY1=UNITC||SUBJC; -- it works fine.
> Does anyone see what the problem is?
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