Art,

Thanks for your response. I changed as you suggested (and I think Eric H probably asked me to put double quotes in each of my macro variables rather than in mkdir command) and its working perfectly fine.

I have one query. I thought that it is wrong to put quotes in each of the macro variables while constructing a path using more than one macro variable as the resultnant expression will contain the 2 quotes side by side. For example when I do

/* Change the path below if you are running from different computer*/ %Let ProjectRootFolderPath = "C:\Documents and Settings\abc\desktop\";

/*Provide the path of the Raw data file below - DO NOT change this if your folder structure is same as for the rest of the team.*/ %let PathofInitialData = "Temp\TR-ERT\";

%let FinalFolderName = "ProductA"; options xwait; %put &ProjectRootFolderPath.&PathofInitialData.&FinalFolderName;

The I get in the LOG

179 %put &ProjectRootFolderPath.&PathofInitialData.&FinalFolderName; "C:\Documents and Settings\abc\desktop\""Temp\TR-ERT\""ProductA" 180 X mkdir &ProjectRootFolderPath.&PathofInitialData.&FinalFolderName.;

If you see the above Log contains 2 quotes between desktop\ and temp and same in another place. i thought that one should avoid 2 quote situation as it would give errors. Am I wrong in this supposition. if no, then how is it that in the present case its not causing any erros while creating a new folder?

regards, Hari India