topic Re: How to find macros code location in SAS Programming

How to find macros code location

fabioce — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 06:50:13 GMT

I'm new in SAS programming and we have a SAS procedure with different call to macros. we need to find those macros and we don't know how to do. any sugestions?

thanks

Re: How to find macros code location

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 08:59:20 GMT

Inspect your SASAUTOS= system option:

proc options option=sasautos;
run;

so you can search these locations for probable stored macro code files.

If you don't find them there, inspect the SASHELP.VCATALG table (objtype = "MACRO") to find macros stored in permanent catalogs.

All others have to be found in files that were included with %INCLUDE somewhere (might be in your SAS "startup" code, meaning autoexec files or codes sent automatically by Studio or EG).

Re: How to find macros code location

Patrick — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 09:08:19 GMT

If these are so called Autocall macros then you can also use....

options mautolocdisplay;

...at the beginning of your program. This will print the location of the source code for the macro into the SAS log whenever you call it.

https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/vdmmlcdc/8.1/mcrolref/p04o0tz0t7g88in1mqlh27hj7wgn.htm

Re: How to find macros code location

Ksharp — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 12:35:01 GMT

%let path=%sysfunc(pathname(sasautos));

%put &path ;