topic Re: options sasautos does not work in SAS Programming

options sasautos does not work

Billybob73 — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 06:55:46 GMT

Hi,

My impression was that when you a a file with a lot of macros in a particular location you could call these macros with a

options sasautos=(sasautos "<path>"));

In my case this does not work. It says "Apparent invocation of macro <macroname>" not resolved.

Do I need something extra ? Path is existing (checked).

I'm working in a Windows environment.

Thanks !

Rgds

William

Re: options sasautos does not work

andreas_lds — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 06:57:27 GMT

Please post the log as text.

The sas-session is running on windows, too? Or just the client?

Re: options sasautos does not work

ballardw — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 07:40:18 GMT

@Billybob73 wrote:

Hi,

My impression was that when you a a file with a lot of macros in a particular location you could call these macros with a

options sasautos=(sasautos "<path>"));

In my case this does not work. It says "Apparent invocation of macro <macroname>" not resolved.

Do I need something extra ? Path is existing (checked).

I'm working in a Windows environment.

Thanks !

Rgds

William

To use the SAS autos the macro definition files have to 1) be in the SASAUTOS search path 2) have exactly one macro in each .SAS program file and 3) the name of the file has to be exactly the same as the name of the macro.

So if you have a single SAS program file with multiple macro definitions in it then this does not work.

If your file name is different then the name of the macro: such as filename is mymacro and the name of the macro invoked is %countthis then it will not work.

Re: options sasautos does not work

Shmuel — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:52:03 GMT

You can try:

filename mymacros <path>;
options sasautos = (sasautos mymacros);

each macro should be saved separately in the path as <macro_name>.sas or

you can gather a group of macros in one <file_name1>.sas and precede your code

with: %include <path>/<file_name1>.sas; - in order to compile the macros.

Re: options sasautos does not work

Ksharp — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 12:12:54 GMT

Try append system option:

options append=(sasautos=(abc def) ) ;