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Dear SAS-L,
I have some data with variable names like MembsEnr_Eff_Flag_200912,
MembsEnr_Eff_Flag_201001, etc. (MembsEnr_Eff_Flag_YYYYMM). These fields are
either "Y" or "N". I also have another variable called 'Membs_Enroll_yrmo,'
but not all yearmonth values have a corresponding MembsEnr_Eff_Flag_YYYYMM
field. I want to return rows where the flag field is "Y" and YYYYMM =
'Membs_Enroll_yrmo'. I thought I'd use the vvaluex function (one I read
about on this list, go SAS-L!),
data EnrEff;
set Enr (obs = 10);
if vvaluex(cats("MembsEnr_Eff_Flag_",Membs_Enroll_yrmo)) = "Y" then
output;
run;
This seems to work, but for every row where the variable does not exist, I
get the following error message:
NOTE: Argument to function VVALUEX is not a known variable name:
MembsEnr_Eff_Flag_200812.
NOTE: Invalid argument to function VVALUEX at line 18 column 8.
The dataset is 90 million rows, so the log quickly grows too large to handle
with this output. Is there any way to suppress the note in the log or do
better error handling? I was hoping for something like:
if vvalue_exist(...) then ....
Thanks,
Sterling
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