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Hi Lewis,
Just because it works doesn't mean it's best practice. Macro is orders of
magnitude slower than data step programming.
As others have posted, what exactly are you trying to do? I suspect you
don't need macro for your scenario. Of course, I could be totally mistaken
in this assumption.
Cheers,
Scott
"Lewis Jordan" <lewjord@UGA.EDU> wrote in message
news:20081025174608.OHO02067@punts3.cc.uga.edu...
> My mistake. In the original posting, I had
> "data two;set one;..." I did not intend to refernce the "one" data set.
> Below is the code the Howard sent, and works like a charm.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> data one;
> array knots{5};
> do i=1 to 5;
> knots{i}=ranuni(38211);
> call symput (compress('fyknot'||i),trim(left(knot{i})));
> end;
> drop i;
> run;
>
> data two;
> array x{5};
> do i=1 to 5;
> x{i}= symget( cats( 'fyknot' , i ) ) ;
> end;
> output;
> run;quit;
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