If you create a Base SAS^® library in SAS^® Management Console that has a path which contains a macro variable reference, when you try to access that library in either METALIB procedure or a LIBNAME statement using the META engine, you will receive one of the following messages:

The SAS^® Metadata Server does not resolve the macro variable reference when it attempts to assign the library. If you run the LIBNAME or PROC METALIB in a SAS session on an operating system that allows the ampersand (&) character to be embedded in a physical file location, you will receive the NOTE above. If you run on an operating system that does not allow embedded ampersands, you will see the ERROR above. The only known circumvention for this problem is to remove the macro variable and hard code the path value for the library.

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