Date:         Mon, 13 May 2002 11:28:31 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J." <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Fehd, Ronald J." <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: format and macros
Comments: cc: William Kossack <kossackw@NJC.ORG>
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> From: William Kossack [mailto:kossackw@NJC.ORG]
> My code seems to be working except for when I try to use a
> format inside a macro I get the following
>
> NOTE 137-205: Line generated by the invoked macro "CREATE".
> 5                 &&varn&x=put(&&varn&x,codesc.);
>                                         -------
>                                         48
> ERROR 48-59: The format CODESC was not found or could not be loaded.
>
> below is the critical part of my sas code.  among other conversions I
> need to
> fix data where they have code the text "Little", "Some",
> "Much", etc into the dataset.
>
> proc format;
>  value $codesc  "None"   = "0"

as I suspected you built a character format: $codesc.
and are using a numeric format reference   :  codesc.

Ron Fehd  the macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2@cdc.gov

Your task is simple: remove the difference
between how things should be
and     how they   really are.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant pot-shot #4247