sa, should be CALL EXECUTE( '%RunMe('||xx||')'); JP On 4/27/05, sa polo <solouga2@rediffmail.com> wrote: > Hello All; > I am unsuccessfully attempting to run a macro within a macro . > The macro %RunDates takes a year and month and passes all > WEEKDAYS to a second macro %RunMe which prints the string that is > passed to it. > > %MACRO RunMe(xx); > DATA _NULL_; > PUT xx=&xx; > RUN; > %MEND; > > %MACRO RunDates(YYMM); > data _null_; > FirstDay=TRIM(LEFT(PUT(&YYMM,z6.)))||TRIM(LEFT(PUT(01,z2.))); > FirstDaySAS=INPUT(FirstDay,YYMMDD10.); > PUT FirstDaySAS=date7.; > Last_Day_of_Month=INTNX('MONTH',FirstDaySAS,0,'END'); > PUT Last_Day_of_Month=date7.; > do i = FirstDaySAS to Last_Day_of_Month; > start=intnx('Day',FirstDaySAS,i)-FirstDaySAS; > if 2 <= weekday(start) <= 6 then do; > put start=date7.; > xx=PUT(start,YYMMDDN8.); > yy=COMPRESS('flags_fiveT1A_' ||xx ||'.csv'); > CALL EXECUTE( %RunMe(xx)); > end; > end; > run; > > %MEND; > > %RunDates(200503) > Any help is much appreciated. > > Sa >