Date:         Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:00:16 GMT
Reply-To:     Yanal Ansouqa <ansouqa@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         Yanal Ansouqa <ansouqa@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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Subject:      Re: look for a simple way to define a macro variable
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John Cui wrote:

> Hi SAS-lers,
>
> I want to define 50 macro variables,each of which equals to the name of  a
> variable in my dataset. By proc contents, I have a list of all variables
> names. Could there be a simple way to define 50 macro variables but one by
> one using %let statement.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
You can always get proc contents to output a dataset, and then use
symget in a data _null_ to define the macro variables.