Appending a decimal to a data set name

[Medvedeff]

Does anyone know how to append a decimal to a data set name?

For example, I would like to be able to produce something like this:

mylib.Parameter.25
mylib.Parameter.50
mylib.Parameter.75
etc.

I am producing several hundred datasets in this way, with the decimals coded as parameters in a macro.

Obviously, the problem is that SAS tries to read the decimal as a library name, or something along those lines. Any ideas as to how I can get around this?

 

[klaz2002]

Why do you need the decimal? SAS dataset names cant start with a number or contain a decimal inside (the SAS engine thinks its a member of something). These are rules that have been in SAS since the beginning.

If you need the decimal to have an incremental way of id'ing the dataset just concatenate the number to the dataset name. SAS can read ranges this way.

for example if you would like to do something to datasets a1 - a100 you can by using the '-' operator.

See SAS docs for more info.

Klaz