topic automatic macro in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/automatic-macro/m-p/152845#M262603 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>%macro stats(dsn,class,vars);</P><P><STRONG style="color: #ff0000;">title 'Listing produced on &amp;sysday, &amp;sysdate at &amp;systime';&nbsp;&nbsp; </STRONG></P><P>title2 "Statistics from data set &amp;dsn";</P><P>proc means data=&amp;dsn n mean min max maxdec=1;</P><P>class &amp;class;</P><P>var &amp;vars;</P><P>run;</P><P>%mend stats;</P><P></P><P></P><P><STRONG style="color: #ff0000;">%<EM>STATS</EM>(learn.bicycles, Country, Units TotalSales)&nbsp; Hi guys, I'm just wondering why the first title couldn't be resolved and show the current day,date and time? </STRONG></P><P></P><P></P><P><STRONG style="color: #ff0000;">THANK YOU!</STRONG></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 20 Sep 2014 01:57:43 GMT chouchou 2014-09-20T01:57:43Z automatic macro https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/automatic-macro/m-p/152845#M262603 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>%macro stats(dsn,class,vars);</P><P><STRONG style="color: #ff0000;">title 'Listing produced on &amp;sysday, &amp;sysdate at &amp;systime';&nbsp;&nbsp; </STRONG></P><P>title2 "Statistics from data set &amp;dsn";</P><P>proc means data=&amp;dsn n mean min max maxdec=1;</P><P>class &amp;class;</P><P>var &amp;vars;</P><P>run;</P><P>%mend stats;</P><P></P><P></P><P><STRONG style="color: #ff0000;">%<EM>STATS</EM>(learn.bicycles, Country, Units TotalSales)&nbsp; Hi guys, I'm just wondering why the first title couldn't be resolved and show the current day,date and time? </STRONG></P><P></P><P></P><P><STRONG style="color: #ff0000;">THANK YOU!</STRONG></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 20 Sep 2014 01:57:43 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/automatic-macro/m-p/152845#M262603 chouchou 2014-09-20T01:57:43Z Re: automatic macro https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/automatic-macro/m-p/152846#M262604 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Macro variables resolve in double quotes not single quotes.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 20 Sep 2014 02:23:17 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/automatic-macro/m-p/152846#M262604 Reeza 2014-09-20T02:23:17Z