Referencing Macro Variables Indirectly
Introduction
In the last example, you saw how
to use the SYMPUT routine to create a series of macro variables whose
names are based on the values of
Course_code.
However, you still needed to modify the TITLE statement in each PROC
PRINT step in order to print output for each course.
Suppose you want to
write a PROC PRINT step that you can reuse without any modification
to print information about each course. You can do this by using an
indirect reference in the TITLE statement.
data _null_; set sasuser.courses; call symput(course_code,trim(course_title)); run; %let crsid=C002; proc print data=sasuser.schedule noobs label; where course_code="&crsid"; var location begin_date teacher; title1 "Schedule for ...
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