data _null_ ,

A little testing showed that regardless of the catalogs name it found the format. I specifically created a format in a library called formats with a catalog name of junkformat so the fmtsearch looked something like this:

option fmtsearch = (formats.junkformat) ;

I called the macro thusly: %VarAndFormatInfo(dsn = oneb , var = i)

it found it and correctly matched it up with the variable name, the resulting output dataset looked like:

D L F D D A A M E L P N D I T N T S L F E R O S E E G A G n N T A A N F E M F E T E E C 3 T U O a A A E B M M U G U F U I D Y X X H S S Y A b m M R N E I A L T Z I L L I P C C L E E P G s e E T D L N X T H Z X T L T E L L O P P E E

1 i TEST3A 0 10 10 1 40 2 2 1E-12 0 0 N N N 2 i TEST3A 11 20 20 1 40 2 2 1E-12 0 0 N N N

Toby Dunn