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Dom,
I see that Ken Moody explained the real issue with your program. I'd just
like to point out that you can completely eliminate your first DATA step by
a little recoding of your PROC CONTENTS as follows.
Proc contents
data=se.test(keep=chp:)
out=memlist(keep=name)
noPrint
;
Run ;
Ed
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-----Original Message-----
From: dude [mailto:dude@DUDES.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:48 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: new to macros, need help!! re-post.
I'm trying to run a hilot plot against a dataset that has a variable number
of variables, I'd like to run the plot against a subset of these variables
that begin with CHP.
I'm taking a proc contents of the dataset, outputting into a dataset only
the variables that begin with CHP. This works fine, then I've created a
simple macro to plot the hilot plot for each of the variables, by passing
the variable name to the macro, however it does not work, I get the error
message listed below:
I can't find the unclosed DO; Any help is appreciated; Is there a simpler
way to do this?
Thanks,
Dom
SAS code folows:
proc contents data=se.test out=memlist noprint; run;
data memlist (keep=name);
set memlist;
if substr(name,1,3) ='CHP';
run;
%macro goplot(chip);
symbol1 i=hilot v=none;
proc gplot data=test;
plot &chip*time;
run;
%mend;
data _null_;
set memlist;
call symput( 'chip', trim(left(put(name, $9.))));
put chip;
if substr(name,1,3)='CHP' then do;
%goplot(chip);
end;
run;
quit;
ERROR messages follow:
NOTE: Line generated by the invoked macro "GOPLOT".
2076 proc gplot data=test; plot
&chip*time; run;
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117
ERROR: Variable CHIP not found.
NOTE: The previous statement has been deleted.
ERROR 117-185: There was 1 unclosed DO block.
ERROR: At least one PLOT or BUBBLE statement must be given.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
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