Date:         Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:21:20 GMT
Reply-To:     Tim Berryhill <tim@AARTWOLF.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Tim Berryhill <tim@AARTWOLF.COM>
Organization: Concentric Internet Services
Subject:      Re: Unquoting quotes

Graeme, Others have already suggested you omit the quotes initially, and I
agree.  Further, you may need to set the DQUOTE option, which allows macro
variables to resolve inside double quotes (they will still not resolve
inside single quotes).  Then you can code:


OPTION DQUOTE;
%let devices=SM06 SM07;
PROC PRINT DATA=STUFF;
  TITLE2 'Example of Resolving &devices';
  TITLE3 "Details for Processing &devices";
RUN;

I would expect to see the name of the macro variable in TITLE2 (along with
the &), and the value of the variable in TITLE3.

You might want to look for #BYVAR in the documentation.  If a PROC uses a BY
statement, both the names and the values of the BY variables are available
for inclusion in TITLE statements.  I mention this because it seems silly to
use macro coding to embed a constant in a title, and it is a pity to run
many runs selecting different values of &devices when a BY statement could
report them all in one run.

Tim Berryhill
does anyone know what nodots-daemon is about?  Care to share?
<Graeme.Kirton@FILCS.COM> wrote in message
news:OFDA561256.465BBB17-ON80256C70.0038DD19-80256C70.0038D9C4@fcs.com...
> Hiya, I need to unquote a string into a  macro variable so I can use it in
> a title statement, as Im getting errors from;
>
> %let devices="SM006" "SM007"; /*TITLE NEED TO INCLUDE THESE*/
> %let myquote=%unquote(&devices); /*ATTEMPT*/
> %put &myquote;
>
> Wants to read, SM006 SM007.
>
> Cheers
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Graeme Kirton
> IT Developer
> Filtronic Compound Semiconductors Ltd
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