Date:         Fri, 3 Jun 2005 15:41:15 -0400
Reply-To:     "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: macro variable will not evaluate as numeric
Comments: To: sas-l@uga.edu

Ryan Diver wrote:
> I'm new to macro coding and I'm trying to create a macro that will
> give me a 1/0 variable for every combination of two variables. The
> macro runs with out error messages, but all of the variables only
> have values of 0. It doesn't look like the condition for assigning a
> 1 is being met, but I can't figure out why. Any suggestions on the
> following code would be helpful.

Use %EVAL to have the logical resolution of a macro expression be replaced
into the source stream.

%LET X=0;

%PUT &X=0;
%PUT &X=1;
%PUT %EVAL(&X=0);
%PUT %EVAL(&X=1);

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Richard A. DeVenezia
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