topic Re: %include in SAS Programming

%include

maroulator — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:19:13 GMT

I have to run three macros; each defined by extensive pieces of code (filename1, filename2, filename3). Rather than creating one large file with everything (which makes it extremely difficult to debug), I was wandering if I could use the %include statement in a seperate macros to run my other three macros one after the other. I have the following code; could someone with more exprience with the %include statement please provide a sanity check, because this doesn't seem to be running.

%macro MainMacro;

%include '\filepathmaindirectory\filepathsubdirectory\filename1';

%include '\filepathmaindirectory\filepathsubdirectory\filename2';

%include '\filepathmaindirectory\filepathsubdirectory\filename3';

%mend MainMacro;

%MainMacro;

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Re: %include

Reeza — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:25:44 GMT

You don't need macros, can use %include directly, though I've always seen it include the .sas extension.

Something like the following should work:

%include '\filepathmaindirectory\filepathsubdirectory\filename1.sas';

%include '\filepathmaindirectory\filepathsubdirectory\filename2.sas';

%include '\filepathmaindirectory\filepathsubdirectory\filename3.sas';

Re: %include

Tom — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:34:21 GMT

Sounds like you are talking about programs and not macros. If you were talking about macros then your syntax would look more like:

* Define the macro;

%include '\filepathmaindirectory\filepathsubdirectory\filename1';

* Call the macro ;

%filename1(option1=yes,option2=no);

If you create your files in this way then you can use SASAUTOS.

options insert=(sasautos='\filepathmaindirectory\filepathsubdirectory') mrecall ;

%filename1(option1=yes,option2=no);

%filename2;

%filename3;

Re: %include

Tom — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:39:40 GMT

You can specify more than one filename in the %INCLUDE statement.

filename myprogs '\filepathmaindirectory\filepathsubdirectory\';

%inc myprogs(filename1 filename2 filename3) / source2;