Date:         Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:37:14 -0800
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From:         brian.kreeger@GMAIL.COM
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Subject:      Re: Extracting date in required form from macro variable and
              concatinating with string
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> how do i compress this so i can get output as
>
> abc20071221.csv
>
> Thanks,
> Raghu


Use the compress function:

%let name =
compress(%sysfunc(putn(%sysfunc(inputn(&x,anydtdte21.)),yymmddN8.)).csv);

It removes any blanks.