topic Re: Passing Macro Variables From Macro to Macro in SAS Programming

Passing Macro Variables From Macro to Macro

DavidPhillips2 — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:18:21 GMT

I’m googing how to pass a variable from one macro to another and having a hard time finding good documentation on it. Concept code is below:

Please advise:

%macro createYearsOuter(yearVar);
%CreateYears(&yearVar, 'S');
%CreateYears(&yearVar, 'F');
%mend;

%createYearsOuter(1617);
%createYearsOuter(1516);

Re: Passing Macro Variables From Macro to Macro

Reeza — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:24:44 GMT

That should work fine, but I'm partial to CALL EXECUTE these days.

Is there something there not working?

@DavidPhillips2 wrote:

I’m googing how to pass a variable from one macro to another and having a hard time finding good documentation on it. Concept code is below:

Please advise:

%macro createYearsOuter(yearVar);
%CreateYears(&yearVar, 'S');
%CreateYears(&yearVar, 'F');
%mend;

%createYearsOuter(1617);
%createYearsOuter(1516);

Re: Passing Macro Variables From Macro to Macro

DavidPhillips2 — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:32:09 GMT

Reeza, thanks for pointing out that the code works. I thought it wasn't due to a different error.