Date:         Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:49:05 -0600
Reply-To:     Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: DO While in Macro
Comments: To: "Eli Y. Kling" <eli.kling@gmail.com>
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Yes, the ability to set with : operator is new in 9.2.

-Joe

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Eli Y. Kling <eli.kling@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ted,
>
> Is this a V9.2 thing? it does not work for me on my 9.1:
>
> data test_1;
>  a=17;
>  run;
> data test_2;
>  b=77;
>  run;
>
> data agnostic;
>  set test_:;
>  run;
>                -
>                22
>                 -
>                 200
> ERROR: File WORK.TEST_.DATA does not exist.
> ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: a name, a
> quoted string, (, ;, END,
>              KEY, KEYS, NOBS, OPEN, POINT, _DATA_, _LAST_, _NULL_.
>
> ERROR 200-322: The symbol is not recognized and will be ignored.
>
>
> Eli
>
>
> On Jan 16, 9:39 pm, tc...@ASHLANDHOME.NET (Ted Clay) wrote:
> > There is a non-macro solution to the problem, which works if all the
> > datasets you want to concatenate begin with the same string (and no other
> > data sets do).
> >
> > Data all_weeks;
> >  Set week_:;
> > Run;
> >
> > Ted
> >
>