topic Re: sasautos question in SAS Programming

sasautos question

deleted_user — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:58:27 GMT

Hello All. Suggestions on why the macro autocall_mac1 is not being resolved in this program?

filename macros "C:\sas_macros";
options mautosource sasautos = (macros SASAUTOS);

%autocall_mac1

the log says :
WARNING: Apparent invocation of macro AUTOCALL_MAC1 not resolved.
ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

C:\sas_macros\autocall_mac1.sas looks like this:
%macro autocall_mac1;
%let y = autocall_mac1;
%put "&y";
%mend autocall_mac1;

%autocall_mac1

Andy

Re: sasautos question

Peter_C — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:23:25 GMT

are you running Enterprise Guide.?

Re: sasautos question

deleted_user — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:12:16 GMT

I have SAS for the PC.
9.1.3 service pack 4, windows version 5.1.2600

Re: sasautos question

deleted_user — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:22:22 GMT

I closed and restarted SAS, and the program works; thought I tried that yesterday before posting..

Re: sasautos question

Peter_C — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:44:54 GMT

could it have been the kind of problem that option NOMRECALL causes. Other than restarting after a macro compile/autocall failure the switching on MRECALL can help..!

Re: sasautos question

PatrickG — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:09:57 GMT

MRECALL is mostly intended as a debugging tool (that's why NOMRECALL is the default) but it can be helpful in figuring out this sort of problem...!