Hi David,

You cannot create (via symput) and use a macro variable in the same data step.

(probably the most frequent violation of macro variable usage.)

Anders

"David Chang" <chang_dj@yahoo.com> skrev i en meddelelse news:i7mdnX7ai4CsA-PZRVn-ug@comcast.com... > Hi, I am trying to loop thru each obs in the data set with a macro. For > some > reason, the following code does not work. Can anyone help me out ? > > data _null_; > set orders; > call symput("orderId", orderId); /*One column of data "orders" is named > as "orderId")*/ > %printDetail(&orderId); /*for each orderId, print out the order > details.....It does not work.....*/ > run; > > > Thank you !! > > David > > > > >