Question

I’d like to use the date as a variable name. I understand I’ll need to append a character to the front and also that it’s not a good way to store data (it’s purely for report aesthetics). I’ve tried %eval() but can’t solve it.

%let var_date = '_'||today();
data date;
    %eval(&var_date) = .;
run;

I’d like the variable name to be _02JUN2011. Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

This does what I’m looking for. Is this maintainable?

data date1;
    date = put(today(),date9.);
    text = '';
    do i = 1 to 5;
        output;
    end;
run;
proc transpose data = date1 out = date2;
    by i;
    id date;
    var text;
run;