Date:         Wed, 19 Mar 2003 20:53:49 +0100
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <peter.crawford@DB.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Peter Crawford <peter.crawford@DB.COM>
Subject:      is macro generated text mquoted
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platforms winNT, aix,  os/390  sas versions v8.1, v8.2, v9.0
(but not all on all)

I discovered I needed %unquote() in

   %put %sy(remote) = %unquote(&&%msyo(remote)) ;

The macro %sy returns the value of a system option with keyword
and %msyo, does the same but without the keyword

If remote is the only option which holds the name of a macro var,
then there isn't much use for this construct. But it is interesting.......
that to use the text generated by a macro as the name of a macro
var, I have to %unquote() the combination !

and, final question,
Why does it need double &

HTH
Peter Crawford


%macro  sy( op); %sysfunc( getoption( &op, keyword))  %mend;
%macro msyo(op); %sysfunc( getoption( &op         ))  %mend;






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