Sorry, I see my fingers didn't type as fast as my thought... The PUT statement was NOT made to resolve expressions.

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Terjeson, Mark Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 10:53 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Unexpected output

Hi Irin,

The PUT statement was made to resolve expressions, so you merely have to resolve the expression first and then PUT does a good job of outputting strings and final numbers. Don't forget to quote literal strings and not quote variables. e.g.

data _null_; file print;

num1=8; denom1=2; x = num1/denom1;

put "Percent=" x " Percent=" x;

run;

Hope this is helpful.

Mark Terjeson Senior Programmer Analyst, IM&R Russell Investment Group

Russell Global Leaders in Multi-Manager Investing

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Irin later Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 10:31 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Unexpected output

I am trying to get an output using the following code:

data _null_; file print;

put "Percent=num1/denom1 Percent=num1/denom1"; ... run;

And I got unexpected output:

Percent=num1/denom1 Percent=num1/denom1 Percent=num2/denom2 Percent=num2/denom2 ....

In other words I did not get any numbers.....while my num1; denom1; num2; den2 are definitely numbers. What do you think I am doing wrong? Thank you in advance,

Irin

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