Date:         Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:53:24 -0500
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
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From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: using macro variable
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data temp;
  set total;
  new_var="&segment";
run;

Gerhard




On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:57:25 +0530, Mohit Bhatia <mohit.b.bhatia@AEXP.COM>
wrote:

>hi ,
>
>I want to do this .
>
>%let segment=low;
>
>data temp;
>set total;
>( now here i want to create a variable inside the dataset temp which
takes
>the value of the macro variable segment)
>
>How to do this?
>
>
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