Date:         Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:23:24 -0400
Reply-To:     "Huang, Ya" <ya.huang@PFIZER.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Huang, Ya" <ya.huang@PFIZER.COM>
Subject:      Re: from a list of vars in a macro to an array
Comments: To: JSD <jsdavid1@HOTMAIL.COM>
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How about this?

%let mymacro=myvar_1 myvar_2 myvar_3 myvar_4;

 data _null_;
 call symput('arryint','"'||tranwrd(compbl("&mymacro"),' ','","')||'"');
 run;

%put &arryint;

data xx;
 array vv(4) $8 (&arryint);
run;

proc print;
run;

Kind regards,

Ya Huang

-----Original Message-----
From: JSD [mailto:jsdavid1@HOTMAIL.COM]
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 2:09 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: from a list of vars in a macro to an array


Listers,

I have a question conerning transporting the contents of a macro (a
variable list) to an array.  Here is an example of what I would like
to do.

The contents of &mymacro would contain:

myvar_1 myvar_2 myvar_3 ... myvar_k


/*  Problem starts below  */
I would like to pass the contents of &mymacro on to an array.  For
example,

array vv[k] $8. ("myvar_1","myvar_2","myvar_3", ... "myvar_k");


Has anyone encountered something like this?  Any help or suggestions
would be appreciated.


Best,

JSD