25213 - How to use the SYSPARM option to pass values to your SAS® session

Sample 25213: How to use the SYSPARM option to pass values to your SAS® session

/*************************************************************/
/* To use this example, invoke a SAS session like this:      */
/*                                                           */  
/*  sas -sysparm "01aug94 05aug91 10jan60"                   */
/*                                                           */
/*************************************************************/

/* Create a macro to parse the value passed to SYSPARM at    */
/* invocation into three separate date values for use in the */
/* following DATA step.                                      */                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                        
%macro split;                                                                                                                           
  %let cnt=0;                                                                                                                            
  %do %until(&temp eq);                                                                                                                  
    %let cnt=%eval(&cnt+1);                                                                                                               
    %global parm&cnt;                                                                                                                     
    %let temp=%scan(&sysparm,&cnt);                                                                                                       
    %let parm&cnt=%scan(&sysparm,&cnt);                                                                                                   
      /* Check the values of the new macro variables */                                                                                    
      %put &&parm&cnt;                                                                                                                    
  %end;                                                                                                                                  
%mend split;                                                                                                                            

/* Execute the macro */
%split                                                                                                                                  
     
/* Use the values passed to SYSPARM in a DATA step */                                                                                                                                   
data b;                                                                                                                                 
  input mydate date7.;                                                                                                                  
  if "&parm2"d <= mydate <= "&parm1"d;                                                                                                  
datalines;                                                                                                                              
01jan89                                                                                                                                 
01jan90                                                                                                                                 
01jan91                                                                                                                                 
01jan92                                                                                                                                 
01jan93                                                                                                                                 
01jan94                                                                                                                                 
;                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                        
proc print;                                                                                                                             
  format mydate date7.;                                                                                                                  
run;

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Obs     mydate

 1     01JAN92
 2     01JAN93
 3     01JAN94

Date Modified:	2006-08-08 03:03:15
Date Created:	2005-02-10 13:22:00

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Sample 25213: How to use the SYSPARM option to pass values to your SAS® session

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