Date:         Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:49:14 +0000
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From:         toby dunn <tobydunn@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: iterative %do loop in macro language
Comments: To: rajasekhargo@YAHOO.COM
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I have to wonder why you need to do this but since I dont know the bigger
picture as David always puts it:


%Macro Iter( List = ) ;
%Local I Stop ;

%Let Stop = %Eval( %SysFunc( CountC( &List , %Str( ) ) ) + ( %Length( &List
) > 0 ) ) ;

%Do I = 1 %To &Stop ;
  %Put Item = %Scan( &List , &I , %Str( ) ) ;
%End ;

%Mend Iter ;


%Iter( List = import export configure )



Toby Dunn

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From: Raj <rajasekhargo@YAHOO.COM>
Reply-To: Raj <rajasekhargo@YAHOO.COM>
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: iterative %do loop in macro language
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:45:20 -0400

Hello everyone,

A quick question:

Is there a way in macros iterative do-loop to loop through a series of
words? For example, I have a list of words
like 'import', 'export',  'configure'.

I need to loop through each of the words like this.

%do i = import, export, configure;

      ...more macro statements using the value of &i ;

%end;

But macro iterative do loop only allows integer values. I know that we can
do this in regular do-loop (like do i= import, export, configure; ). Can
we do the same in macros as well?

Thanks in advance for your responses.

Raj

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