topic Re: Determining calling macro automatically in SAS Programming

Determining calling macro automatically

bearda — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 07:41:43 GMT

Hi,

I've been struggling with this issue quite many times and haven't find a solution yet.

It's easiest to show the issue by little code:

%macro Message(message = , caller = &sysmacroname);
%put ERROR: &caller - &message;
%mend Message;

%macro CallerMacro;
%Message(message = Text)
%mend CallerMacro;

%CallerMacro;

Issue here is that &sysmacroname resolves to MESSAGE, not CALLERMACRO. Is there any way to automatically determine which macro was a caller macro? End users doesn't like to write "caller = CallerMacro" for every message.

Re: Determining calling macro automatically

andreas_lds — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 08:02:18 GMT

Which SAS-version are you using? In 9.4 you can use SysMExecName to get the right macro-name.

Re: Determining calling macro automatically

bearda — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 08:51:23 GMT

Thank you so much andreas_Ids. This is exactly what I was looking for!