Date:         Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:18:23 -0800
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From:         "raghur6@gmail.com" <raghur6@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: Extracting date in required form from macro variable and
              concatinating with string
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On Dec 22, 9:14 pm, Patrick <patrick.mat...@gmx.ch> wrote:
> Hi Raghu
> Are you looking for something like this?
> Patrick
>
> %let x=2007-12-20 00:00:0;
> %let y=abc
> %sysfunc(putn(%sysfunc(inputn(&x,anydtdte21.)),yymmddN8.)).csv;
> %put &y;

Hi Patrick,

thanks yeh, I am looking for that kind of out put

if i use put statement the out put is like

abc  20071221.csv

how do i compress this so i can get output as

abc20071221.csv

Thanks,
Raghu