Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:51:54 -0400
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From: Nat Wooding <Nathaniel.Wooding@DOM.COM>
Subject: Re: error in calling variable
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In addition to the suggestions offered by Chang and Sig, I suggest that you
include the option Symbolgen. With this option, for each time a macro
variable is used, SAS will print a line in the log which says something
like Variable &b resolved to ...
Nat Wooding
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Chang Chung
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:48:21 -0700, chandrasekar.tm@GMAIL.COM wrote:
>Hi,
>In below program i call a macro variable called 'b' dynamicaly.
>But iam getting following error.
>data auto_&b; set newproset; by cp; if cp=&&b.; run;
> -
> 22
> -
> 202
>ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: a name, a
>quoted string, (, /, ;, _DATA_, _LAST_, _NULL_.
>
>ERROR 202-322: The option or parameter is not recognized and will be
>ignored.
hi,
use option mprint; to see the resolved code. my best guess is that &b is
resolved to something that is not allowed in the dataset name (something
other than letters, digits, and underscore characters.
cheers,
chang
p.s. &&b. resolves exactly the same as &b or &b. &&&b is something else you
don't seem to worry about yet.
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