topic Re: utility macro and standard maco in New SAS User

utility macro and standard maco

lc7033907 — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 00:08:25 GMT

Hello all,

I came across utility macros and standard macros when reading pharmaceutical papers. But I never heard of them before. Any share is welcome. Thanks.

Re: utility macro and standard maco

Reeza — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 00:24:36 GMT

Those are user defined terms, so they can mean whatever you want them to....the usage and terms will vary from company to company.

My guesses would be:

Utility macro's are likely a touch more generic, e.g add commas between macro variable lists, or retrieve information on a specific file

Standard macros, would be macros that you use to do accomplish some sort of requirements but is usually more complex and has multiple steps, e.g A reporting macro to prepare financial end of month statements.

And someone else can interpret those entirely differently.

Re: utility macro and standard maco

lc7033907 — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 03:02:08 GMT

@Reeza Thanks for your sharing. I searched them online several times, but never got specific definitions. Maybe the reason is what you explained. Thanks a lot.

Re: utility macro and standard maco

Tom — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 22:19:10 GMT

@lc7033907 wrote:

Hello all,

I came across utility macros and standard macros when reading pharmaceutical papers. But I never heard of them before. Any share is welcome. Thanks.

In pharmaceutical area they probably a distinguishing between something that is of generic utility for working with SAS data of any type and specific macros that produce company standard reports. So you might have a "standard" macro for producing a summary of adverse event report that calls a "utility" macro to produce the title statements.