SAS Certified Professional Prep Guide

Creating Macro Variables during DATA Step Execution

The CALL SYMPUTX Routine

A Brief Overview

The CALL SYMPUTX routine does the following:

• assigns a value produced in a DATA step to a macro variable
• if a macro variable does not exist, the CALL SYMPUTX routine creates the variable
• creates a macro variable assignment when the program is executed
• removes both leading and trailing blanks from both arguments

Note: The CALL SYMPUT routine is an older version of CALL SYMPUTX. CALL SYMPUT has fewer features.

CALL SYMPUTX Routine Syntax

Syntax, CALL SYMPUTX routine: CALL SYMPUTX(macro-variable-name, value <,symbol-table>); macro-variable-name is assigned the character value ofexpression, and any leading or trailing ...